The Contemporary History Play : Staging English and American Pasts
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Methuen Drama Engage
ISBN-10
1350462101
ISBN-13
9781350462106
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Methuen Drama
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2025
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 13.80 x 1.60 cms
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Through investigating how history is presented and probed in 21st-century plays, The Contemporary History Play proposes a radical new framework for analysing contemporary historical drama.
Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play.New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics'' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes.
The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century.
For theatre scholars, this bookoffers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play''s recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century.
For theatre scholars, this bookoffers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play''s recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
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