Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture

Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

By:

John Orr

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society

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This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, it is argued, illuminate the forms of pleasure, fear, performance and corruption which dominate our daily lives. Tragicomedy is seen as unique because of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

Release date Australia

September 23rd, 1991

Author

John Orr

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VI, 170 p.

Pages

170

Series

Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society

Dimensions

140x216x10

ISBN-13

9780333536971

Product ID

14244970

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