Of Precariousness : Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre

Of Precariousness : Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre /

Drawing primarily on Judith Butler's, Jacques Derrida's, Emmanuel Levinas's and Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the v...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Aragay, Mireia, Middeke, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2017
Series:Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 28.
Subjects:
Drama > 21st century > History and criticism.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 21st century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Precariousness in Drama and Theatre: An Introduction
  • On the Threshold: Precarious Hospitalities as Utopian Imaginings in Pornography, Fewer Emergencies and The American Pilot
  • Staging Terror and Precariousness in Simon Stephens's Pornography and Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
  • Staging Hobbes, or: Theseus Goes to the Theatre. Precariousness, Cultural Memory and Dystopia in Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur
  • Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem and Postmodern Precariousness
  • Precarious Virtuality in Participatory Theatre: Tim Crouch's The Author
  • "We're All in This Together": Reality, Vulnerability and Democratic Representation in Tim Crouch's The Author
  • Promises of the Real? The Precariousness of Verbatim Theatre and Robin Soans's Talking to Terrorists
  • Spaces for the Construction of Community: The Theatre Uncut Phenomenon
  • Living in Liquid Times: Precariousness and Plasticity in Forced Entertainment's Tomorrow's Parties
  • Bridging Precariousness and Precarity: Ecstasy and Bleeding Across in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture
  • Precariousness of Love and Shattered Subjects in Dennis Kelly's Love and Money
  • Ethics, Precariousness and the 'Inclination' towards the Other in debbie tucker green's dirty butterfly, Laura Wade's Posh and Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness
  • Vulnerability and the Community of the Precarious in David Greig's The Events
  • The Inoperative Community and Death: Ontological Aspects of the Precarious in David Greig's The Events and Caryl Churchill's Here We Go
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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