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Jean Genet / David Bradby and Clare Finburgh.
- Title
- Jean Genet / David Bradby and Clare Finburgh.
- Author
- Bradby, David.
- Publication
- Abington, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Finburgh-Delijani, Clare
- Description
- viii, 214 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Jean Genet has emerged in recent years as a key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to Genet's plays in production, offers an overview of this influential and controversial writer whose work prefigures many recent postmodern and post-colonial developments in theatre and performance studies. The volume offers clear discussions of Genet's plays, detailing philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic considerations, in order to render the complexity of his theatre exhilarating, rather than intimidating. These concise and accessible presentations included in the book's first half, provide a starting point from which then to explore ways in which different directors, designers and actors have approached Genet's theatre. Genet's plays have been staged many hundreds of times over the past sixty years, from Paris to Tokyo, from London to São Paulo. The book includes a spectrum of productions - over 30, from 1947 to 2007 - to illustrate the sheer range of theatrical styles that Genet's texts inspire. Reflecting not only on key plays and productions from the French playwright but on his early life and later political activism, David Bradby and Clare Finburgh provide a comprehensive account of a playwright and theorist whose plays caused rioting in his native country, and whose writing both for and beyond the theatre demonstrate a new approach to the relationships between art and life"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists
- Uniform Title
- Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1.: Life, politics and play-texts -- 1. Life and politics -- 2. Key early plays: The maids, Deathwatch, Splendid's 3. Key late plays: The balcony, The blacks, The screens -- part II: -- Key productions -- Key productions and issues surrounding production: The maids, Deathwatch -- Key productions and issues surrounding production: The balcony, The blacks -- Key productions and issues surrounding production: The screens.
- ISBN
- 9780415375047 (hardback)
- 0415375045 (hardback)
- 9780415375061 (paperback)
- 0415375061 (paperback)
- 9780203098912 (ebook)
- 0203098919 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2011022249
- OCLC
- 729064971
- SCSB-11075435
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library