The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy

ISBN: 9781442663503 出版年：2013 页码：354 Carney, Sean University of Toronto Press

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie The Year of Magical Thinking - Teeth 'n' Smiles - Plenty -- The Secret Rapture - Skylight - The Judas Kiss - Amy's View - My Zinc Bed - The Permanent Way -- The Vertical Hour - Gethsemane Chapter Two Howard Barker: Will and Desire - From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious Claw - Fair Slaughter - That Good Between Us -- The Power of the Dog - Victory - The Castle - The Europeans -- The Possibilities - Gertrude-The Cry - Dead Hands - The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 Chapter Three Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse Saved - Lear - Bingo - The Fool -- Restoration -- The War Plays - Olly's Prison - At the Inland Sea - Coffee- The Crime of the Twenty-First Century - Chair Chapter Four Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Mobius Strip Seven Jewish Children - Lovesick - Abortive -- Owners - Traps -- Light Shining in Buckinghamshire - Cloud Nine - Top Girls - Fen - A Mouthful of Birds -- Lives of the Great Poisoners - The Skriker - Thyestes --- Far Away -- A Number Chapter Five New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking - Faust is Dead - Handbag - Some Explicit Polaroids - Product - The Cut - pool (no water) - Sarah Kane: Blasted - Phaedra's Love - Cleansed - Crave - 4.48 Psychosis Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem Works Cited Index