@article{1469485,
      recid = {1469485},
      author = {Edwards, Gemma,},
      title = {Representing the rural on the English stage : performance  and rurality in the twenty-first century /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book explores how the English rural has been  represented in contemporary theatre and performance.  Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre  production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively  engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000,  constituting the first full study of theatrical  representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its  approach, this book draws on political philosophy and  cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and  Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such  as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of  perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartletts  Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshons The Farm,  the enclosure acts in D.C. Moores Common to Black rural  history in Testaments Black Men Walking, the book shows how  theatre and performance can open up different ways of  reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While  Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers  of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope  means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the  arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and  history. Dr Gemma Edwards is a Leverhulme Early Career  Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work  focuses on place, politics, and performance, particularly  in non-metropolitan contexts. She has published on rurality  in contemporary theatre, and her next project explores  race, class, and English nationhood from 1945 to the  present.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1469485},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26478-8},
}