@article{1433267,
      recid = {1433267},
      author = {McEvoy, Sean,},
      title = {Class, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and  commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in  Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only  the second so far to have been written on him, argues that  the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a  reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in  a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth's most  developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative  resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of  contemporary British political and economic culture. In  doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are  both popular and high-cultural in order to address present  cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess  wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth's work  chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017),  each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single  play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a  variety of ways to Butterworth's presentation of cultural  and personal crisis.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433267},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62711-9},
}