Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Edwards, Gemma

 
9783031264801: Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3031264800 ISBN 13 : 9783031264801
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

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 Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s 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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3031264800
ISBN 13 
9783031264801
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH
ProductSafety@springernature.com

Europaplatz 3,69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg
69115
Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9783031264771: Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-first Century

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3031264770 ISBN 13 :  9783031264771
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Couverture rigide