The Professions in Contemporary Drama.
Title:
The Professions in Contemporary Drama.
Author:
Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel.
ISBN:
9781841508795
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (150 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Bouncer-Teacher-Doctor: Gentrification and the Role of the Outsider in the Plays of John Godber -- 2 'Appalling Teachers': Masculine Authority in the Classroom in Educating Rita and Oleanna -- 3 Theatricality & Madness: Minding the Mind-doctors -- 4 Carry on the Welfare State: Orton, Nichols, and the Medical Profession -- 5 The Priest Character's Space and Function in Contemporary British and Irish Drama -- 6 The Depiction of the Artist in David Storey's Life Class: The Play as Visual Art -- 7 The Artist as Character in Contemporary British Bio-Plays -- 8 The Professional Archaeologist and The Aesthetics of Cultural Imperialism in Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrynchus -- 9 Wittgenstein and Morality - The Playwright's Purpose -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent. The Professions in Contemporary British Drama fills this extraordinary gap with a series of nine papers discussing the educational professions (Bennett, Mangan), the medical profession (Shields, Buse, ), priests (Kurdi), archaeologists (Forsyth) and artists (Di Benedetto, Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Edwards). The book is of relevance to theatre academics and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is based on a conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 6 March 1998.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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