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Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre : Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity / Cristina Delgado-García.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 26Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110403909
  • 9783110411225
  • 9783110333916
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  • 822.920927 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface: Character Remains -- Introduction -- 1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- 2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- 3. Singular Subjectivities -- 4. Collective Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 – Present -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas’s Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface: Character Remains -- Introduction -- 1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- 2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- 3. Singular Subjectivities -- 4. Collective Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 – Present -- Works Cited -- Index

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The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas’s Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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