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Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives [Kietas viršelis]

Edited by (Hunan Normal University, China)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 481 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2021
  • Leidėjas: Methuen Drama
  • ISBN-10: 1350132926
  • ISBN-13: 9781350132924
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 216 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 481 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Oct-2021
  • Leidėjas: Methuen Drama
  • ISBN-10: 1350132926
  • ISBN-13: 9781350132924
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Raktažodžiai:

Why do so many writers and audiences turn to theatre to resolve overwhelming topics of pain and suffering? This collection of essays from international scholars reconsiders how theatre has played a crucial part in encompassing and preserving significant human experiences.

Plays about global issues, including terrorism and war, are increasing in attention from playwrights, scholars, critics and audiences. In this contemporary collection, a gathering of diverse contributors explain theatre's special ability to generate dialogue and promote healing when dealing with human tragedy.

This collection discusses over 30 international plays and case studies from different time periods, all set in a backdrop of war. The four sections document British and American perspectives on theatres of war, global perspectives on theatres of war, perspectives on Black Watch and, finally, perspectives on The Great Game: Afghanistan. Through this, a range of international scholars from different disciplines imaginatively rethink theatre's unique ability to mediate the impacts and experiences of war.

Featuring contributions from a variety of perspectives, this book provides a wealth of revealing insights into why authors and audiences have always turned to the unique medium of theatre to make sense of war.

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Provides a wealth of revealing insights into why authors and audiences turn to the unique medium of theatre to make sense of war.
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives 1(8)
Lauri Scheyer
Section One British, Irish, and American Perspectives on Theatres of War
1 "Carry on to the Place of Pain": Embodiment and Aversion in Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie
9(7)
Robert Brazeau
2 "I Do Want to Take a Man's Part in this Show": The Early War Diary as Rehearsal Stage for the Creation and Navigation of the Newly Militarized Masculine Self
16(8)
Nancy Martin
3 Mothers and Lovers Mourning Fallen Soldiers: Tracing the Shift from Victorian to Interwar Period Mourning in Noel Coward's Post-Mortem
24(7)
Anna Rindfleisch
4 The Romans at War: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra on the Nazi Stage
31(7)
Alessandra Bassey
5 Eros and Terror in Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column--A Play on the Spanish Civil War
38(8)
Jon Woodson
6 The Early African American Theatre of Joshua McCarter Simpson during the Civil War
46(8)
Lauri Scheyer
7 Performing Trauma: Narratives of Rupture in Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children
54(7)
Mamata Sengupta
8 Two Truths and a Lie: Theatrical Form, Plays about Terrorism, and the Search for Understanding
61(10)
Lindsey Mantoan
Section Two Global Perspectives on Theatres of War
1 Unremaking the War: Theatrical Historiography in Alfian Sa'at's Tiger of Malaya
71(8)
Kevin Riordan
2 Ferenc Molnar's The White Cloud and the First World War
79(7)
Marta Pellerdi
3 Presenting Picasso Presents: Exploring the Process of Crafting and Staging Historical Docudrama
86(8)
Annika C. Speer
Begona Echeverria
4 War, Tyranny, and Political Sacrifice in Luis Velez de Guevara's Mas pesar el rey que la sangre y blason de los Guzmanes
94(8)
Alani Hicks-Bartlett
5 Women and War: Seeing Trauma with Theatre
102(8)
Oana Popescu-Sandu
6 Wartime Gender Advocacy and Revival of Theatre in Afghanistan
110(11)
Bahar Jalali
Section Three Perspectives on Black Watch
1 Unities, Communities, and Disunities in Gregory Burke's Black Watch
121(8)
Kate McLoughlin
2 Better Break It: A Case Study of Black Watch
129(6)
Christopher Merrill
3 Gallant Forty Twa: The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch as Exemplary and Unintentional Political Theatre
135(8)
Shawn Renee Lent
4 Black Watch: Revising Scotland's Militarized Identity
143(7)
Lynn Ramert
5 Bringing War Home: Staging the Stories of Soldiers and Refugees
150(9)
Eva Aldea
Section Four Perspectives on The Great Game: Afghanistan
1 "My Country Has Been Imagined Enough": The Great Game, Neo-Imperialism, and Gender
159(8)
Emer O'Toole
Daniel O'Gorman
2 The Geography of Identity
167(2)
Reza Asian
3 The Legacy of an Empire
169(8)
Farid Younos
4 Imagining the Great Game
177(3)
Christopher Merrill
5 The Great Game as Diplomacy: From London to the Pentagon
180(9)
Nicholas J. Cull
6 The Freedom of Boredom
189(4)
Shane Belvin
7 Narrating Peace and Healing in Multinational Theatres of War: From Ancient Greece to Afghanistan to DARPA
193(8)
Tyler D. Reeb
Contributor Biographies 201
Lauri Scheyer is Xiaoxiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professor, Director of the British and American Poetry Research Center, and Co-editor of Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Hunan Normal University, China. She directed the British Council International Videoconference on The Great Game: Afghanistan, and co-directed (with Professor Robert Eaglestone of Royal Holloway University of London) the British Council International Videoconferences on Black Watch and the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade. She publishes widely on topics relating to art as social and political action. Her books include Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry, The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, and A History of African American Poetry.