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Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama, 1st ed. 2017
'Upstart Crows'
Adaptation in Theatre and Performance Series
Language: EnglishSubjects for Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary...:
Keywords
Shakespeare; Contemporary Theatre; Tom Stoppard; Sarah Kane; Adaptation
Support: Print on demand
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Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicol Professor of Drama Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: the Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008) and British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015). He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008) and Sarah Kane in Context (2010).
Argues that contemporary playwrights' responses to Elizabethan and Jacobean drama should be considered appropriation rather than adaptation
Explores a range of derivative works, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem
Interrogates the nature of borrowing and appropriation in dramatic work
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras