TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carney,Sean
TI  - The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy
SN  - 9781442613973
AV  - PR739.P64 C37 2013
U1  - 822/.91409 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - English drama (Tragedy)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Politics in literature
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work.Carney's attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic
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ER  -