Drama on Drama: Dimensions of Theatricality on the Contemporary British Stage (Hardcover)

Notes on Contributors - Preface; N.Boireau - PART 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES - Greeks in Drama: Four Contemporary Issues; N.Vigouroux-Frey - The Revival of Medieval Forms in Recent Political Drama; E.Angel-Perez - Cultural Transformations of Subversive Jacobean Drama: Contemporary Sub-Versions of Tragedy, Comedy and Tragi-Comedy; K.P.Muller - Women Beware Women by Howard Barker (with Thomas Middleton), or: 'The Terrible Consistency'; M.Morel - Japanese Theatrical Forms in Edward Bond's The Bundle and Jackets; M.Prunet - PART 2: THE THEATRICAL IS THE REAL - Now Converging, Now Diverging: Beckett's Metatheatre; R.Cohn - Pinter and the Pinteresque: An Author Trapped by His Own Image?; M.Ghilardi-Santacatterina & A.Sierz - 'The Play's the Thing': the Metatheatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker; C.Dymkowski - Tom Stoppard's Metadrama: the Haunting Repetition; N.Boireau - Hauntings: Ghosts and the Limits of Realism in Cloud Nine and Fen by Caryl Churchill; A.Wilson - PART 3: ENLIGHTENING INTERPLAYS - Watching for Dolphins by John McGrath: the Single Voicing of a Multiple Voice Performance; J-P.Simard - Devising Drama on Drama: the Community and Theatre Traditions; A.Fuchs - Representing Gender/Representing Self: a Reflection on Role-Playing in Performance Theory and Practice; L.Goodman - Translating, Adapting, Re-writing: Three Facets of Christopher Hampton's Works as a Playwright; A-R.Glaap - Les Enfants de Parodie: the Enlightened Incest of Anglo-American Musicals; J.Elsom - General Bibliography - Index