Adaptation and Nation : Theatrical Contexts for Contemporary English and Irish Drama
1st ed. 2017
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
ISBN-10
1137425865
ISBN-13
9781137425867
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 28th, 2017
Print length
185 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscripts
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The book discusses five British and Irish playwrights and their current adaptations, examining well-known dramatists such as Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Brian Friel, while analysing some of their less well-known plays, offering a novel examination of the adaptation process.
This book takes a novel approach to theatrical adaptation, focusing not primarily on filmic adaptations but instead on modern drama based on older, classic playtexts. The specific focus of the book is the exploration of the new national setting given to the reworked version. In exploring the way in which contemporary dramatists in England and Ireland represent a different national setting for their reworked adaptation, we can examine the specific social and political context for the new play, unearthing the cultural conditions at the time of the new setting. In examining only plays that consciously relocate the national setting for their new work, we can also explore resonances between the two different national contexts, analysing cultural and political echoes as well as shifts both geographical and temporal.
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