Jean Genet [electronic resource] / David Bradby and Clare Finburgh.
Bradby, David.; Finburgh, Clare.
2012
PQ2613.E53 Z574 2012eb
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Title Jean Genet [electronic resource] / David Bradby and Clare Finburgh.
Author Bradby, David.
ISBN 9780203098912 (electronic bk.)
0203098919
0415375045
0415375061
9780415375047
9780415375061
9781134188277
Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 214 p.) : ill.
Call Number PQ2613.E53 Z574 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 842/.912
Summary "Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to Genet's plays in production, offers an overview of this influential and controversial writer whose work prefigures many recent postmodern and post-colonial developments in theatre and performance studies. The volume offers clear discussions of Genet's plays, detailing philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic considerations, in order to render the complexity of his theatre exhilarating, rather than intimidating. These concise and accessible presentations included in the book's first half, provide a starting point from which then to explore ways in which different directors, designers and actors have approached Genet's theatre. Genet's plays have been staged many hundreds of times over the past sixty years, from Paris to Tokyo, from London to São Paulo. The book includes a spectrum of productions - over 30, from 1947 to 2007 - to illustrate the sheer range of theatrical styles that Genet's texts inspire. Reflecting not only on key plays and productions from the French playwright but on his early life and later political activism, David Bradby and Clare Finburgh provide a comprehensive account of a playwright and theorist whose plays caused rioting in his native country, and whose writing both for and beyond the theatre demonstrate a new approach to the relationships between art and life"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Finburgh, Clare.
Series Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists.
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Pt. 1.
Life, politics and play-texts
1
Life and politics
2
Key early plays:
The maids,
Deathwatch,
Splendid's3
Key late plays:
The balcony,
The blacks,
The screens
part II:

Key productions

Key productions and issues surrounding production:
The maids,
Deathwatch

Key productions and issues surrounding production:
The balcony,
The blacks

Key productions and issues surrounding production:
The screens.

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