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Political plays, English. --- McGrath, John, --- Theatre Company.

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John Fletcher (1579-1625) was Shakespeare's successor as chief playwright for the King's Company and wrote or collaborated on fifty-four plays. Yet although his work forms the single most substantial canon of drama to come down from the English Renaissance, it has remained largely unexplored by critics. Arguing that knowledge of Fletcher's oeuvre is essential to an understanding of Renaissance drama as a whole, this groundbreaking study analyses Fletcher's unique response to the particular cultural and political conditions of Jacobean theater. Fletcher wrote ironic, tragicomic plays premised upon complex cultural matrices that create unease in audience and critic alike. In examining the sources of this unease, Gordon McMullan rejects centralizing approaches and focuses instead on the social and political tensions - between London and the country, England and the colonies, women and men - that motivate the plays. In so doing, he seeks appropriate ways of reading a group of plays which, by way of their politics, generic complexities, and collaborative mode of production, appear to defy current critical practices.

Fletcher, John --- Authorship --- Politics and literature --- England --- History --- 17th century --- Political plays [English ] --- History and criticism

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Political plays, English --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Pinter, Harold, --- Political and social views.

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"Presenting a critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on the spiralling of uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a case for reading precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries the potential to re-animate our understanding of the 'human' and communal responsibility for the lives of others. The book features case studies from theatre work staged in Britain since the 1990s which are critically situated within their material contexts. Drawing on examples from both subsidized mainstream and fringe theatres, and work that can be loosely classified as new writing, verbatim, and devised theatre, the array of contemporary practitioners examined includes Debbie Tucker Green, Simon Stephens, Stan's Cafe, Mike Bartlett, Gillian Slovo, Caryl Churchill, The Paper Birds, and Belarus Free Theatre. In focusing on areas such as children and youth at risk, social justice, environmental ethics, the implications of the war on terror and politics of austerity, the study makes a vital contribution to the burgeoning field of politics and theatre in the 21st century"--

Political plays, English --- English drama --- Theater --- Theater and society --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- History and criticism --- English drama. --- Political plays, English. --- Theater and society. --- Political aspects. --- 2000-2099. --- Great Britain.

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This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwrights/actors features works written between 1984 and 1993. Slabolepszy, who has won many awards in South Africa and abroad both for his plays and his performances in them, is a master of dialogue, capturing the essence of the personality and speech patterns of his protagonists in language that is often dramatic, frequently funny, sometimes tragic and always entertaining. The works included are Under the Oaks, Over the Hill, Boo to the Moon, Smallholding, Mooi Street Moves and The Return of Elvis du Pisanie. Elvis won Slabolespzy the 1992/93 IGI Life Vita Award for Play of the Year and, together with Mooi Street Moves, gained him the Vita Playwright of the Year award. This collection is introduced by Robert Greig, a well-known theatre critic, and by Bobby Heaney who has been involved in the evolution of several of Slabolepszy's plays.

Race relations --- Political plays, South African (English) --- Apartheid --- Drama. --- South Africa --- Separate development (Race relations) --- Segregation --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era --- Political plays, English --- South African political plays (English) --- South African drama (English)