The Drama of the Double

Permeable Boundaries

By:

Katherine H Burkman

Format:

Hardback

Series:

What Is Theatre?

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This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths – Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter – inform the literature. Taking a psychological/mythical approach, this book explores the inner divisions that lead to boundary loss and the search for the self that may lead to boundaries found. The contention of the book is that the oedipal search for self has been replaced in modern literature by individuals caught up in a narcissistic culture. Katherine H. Burkman explores plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, and Will Eno.

Author Biography:

Katherine H. Burkman is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, USA. She has published eleven books and numerous articles on modern drama, and has also published various plays, poems, and short stories. She founded and served as Artistic Director of Women at Play for twelve years, is presently a member of Wild Women Writing, and continues to act and direct.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2015

Author

Katherine H Burkman

Series

What Is Theatre?

Pages

182

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XV, 182 p.

Dimensions

140x216x13

ISBN-13

9781137566065

Product ID

23050535

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