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Overview
Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.
Synopsis
Convinced that critical and cultural theory can contribute to the understanding of modern British plays, Buse (English, U. of Salford) pairs playwrights and thinkers: Caryl Churchill with Walter Benjamin, Tom Stoppard with Jean-Francois Lyotard, Timberlake Wertenbaker with Edward Said, and so on. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR