Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

by John Orr

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This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, it is argued, illuminate the forms of pleasure, fear, performance and corruption which dominate our daily lives. Tragicomedy is seen as unique becuae of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0333536975

ISBN13:9780333536971

Release Date:September 1991

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:170 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography British & Irish Drama History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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