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The Contemporary History Play

By Benjamin Poore

The Contemporary History Play

By Benjamin Poore

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Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play.New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes.
The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century.
For theatre scholars, this bookoffers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2025-12-11
Publication Date:
2025-12-11
Publisher:
Methuen Drama
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350462101
ISBN13:
9781350462106
Weight:
337 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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