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Modern Verse Drama explores the emergence of the form at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first, offering key case studies of well-known verse dramatists alongside explorations of less-discussed but equally influential writers within the form. Dramatists discussed include T. S. Eliot, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Williams, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, and Caryl Churchill. The book explores the negotiation of these dramatists with the changing position of verse drama in relation to constructions of national and communal audience, aesthetic challenge, and dramatic heritage. Key to the study is the self-conscious positioning of many of these dramatists in relation to an assumed mainstream tradition {u2013} and the various critical responses that that positioning has provoked

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Author

Morra, Irene

Publisher

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472580160

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Drama