1st Edition
Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage In History’s Wings
By Alexander Feldman
Copyright 2013
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political... Read more
Introduction 1. "We want our revolution now": Weiss, Grass, and the Theatre of Insurrection 2. All Wilde on the Western Front: Stoppard, Bennett, and the Theatre of War 3. "God rot great men": Brenton, Hochhuth, and the Anti-heroic Drama 4. "Better mimics than our London actors": Wertenbaker and the Colonial Theatre Conclusion
Biography
Benedict Alexander Feldman is Assistant Professor of Modern British and American Drama at Grant MacEwan University, Canada.
'Taking its methodological inspiration from Linda Hutcheon’s concept of historiographical metafiction, Alexander Feldman’s Dramas of the Past helpfully extends this original notion to encompass dramatic representations of history that apply self-reflexive metatheatrical strategies to comment on the constructedness of history through an augmented awareness of the constructedness of theatre.' - JENN STEPHENSON Queen’s University, Theatre Journal
