Contemporary Political Play Grochala Sarah
Contemporary Political Play Grochala Sarah What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?The Contemporary…
Specifikacia Contemporary Political Play Grochala Sarah
Contemporary Political Play Grochala Sarah
What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure examines the politics of contemporary 'political' drama. Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs?
While political drama is still often thought of as adhering to a Shavian model in which social issues are presented through a dialectical structure, Grochala argues that the It traces the origins of the contemporary British political play to the emergence of the idea of 'serious drama' in the late 19th century through the work of Bernard Shaw, and argues that a Shavian version of serious drama was inextricably linked to the social and political structures of British society at the time.
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