Drama on Drama: Dimensions of Theatricality on the Contemporary British Stage

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Greeks in Drama: Four Contemporary Issues....Pages 3-14
The Revival of Medieval Forms in Recent Political Drama....Pages 15-29
Cultural Transformations of Subversive Jacobean Drama: Contemporary Sub-Versions of Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy....Pages 30-58
Women Beware Women by Howard Barker (with Thomas Middleton): The ‘Terrible Consistency’....Pages 59-71
Japanese Theatrical Forms in Edward Bond’s The Bundle and Jackets....Pages 72-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Now Converging, Now Diverging: Beckett’s Metatheatre....Pages 91-107
Pinter and the Pinteresque: An Author Trapped by His Own Image?....Pages 108-120
‘The Play’s the Thing’: The Metatheatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker....Pages 121-135
Tom Stoppard’s Metadrama: The Haunting Repetition....Pages 136-151
Hauntings: Ghosts and the Limits of Realism in Cloud Nine and Fen by Caryl Churchill....Pages 152-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Watching for Dolphins by John McGrath: The Single Voicing of a Multiple Voice Performance....Pages 171-183
Devising Drama on Drama: The Community and Theatre Traditions....Pages 184-195
Representing Gender/Representing Self: A Reflection on Role Playing in Performance Theory and Practice....Pages 196-214
Translating, Adapting, Rewriting: Three Facets of Christopher Hampton’s Work as a Playwright....Pages 215-230
Les Enfants de Parodie: The Enlightened Incest of Anglo-American Musicals....Pages 231-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-256