Class, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth / Sean McEvoy.
2021
PR6052.U894
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Title
Class, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth / Sean McEvoy.
Author
McEvoy, Sean, 1959- author.
ISBN
9783030627119 (electronic bk.)
303062711X (electronic bk.)
3030627101
9783030627102
303062711X (electronic bk.)
3030627101
9783030627102
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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10.1007/978-3-030-62711-9 doi
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PR6052.U894
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822/.92
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792
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Yakkety Yak: Mojo (1995)
3. Exclusion from the Garden: The Night Heron (2002)
4. Homage: The Winterling (2006)
5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008)
6. The Enchanted Wood: Jerusalem (2009)
7. Time, Myth and Power: The River (2012)
8. Allusion: The Ferryman (2017).
2. Yakkety Yak: Mojo (1995)
3. Exclusion from the Garden: The Night Heron (2002)
4. Homage: The Winterling (2006)
5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008)
6. The Enchanted Wood: Jerusalem (2009)
7. Time, Myth and Power: The River (2012)
8. Allusion: The Ferryman (2017).