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Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the presence of animals in contemporary British drama and theatre and their thought-provoking intersections with the human characters and actors with whom they have increasingly come to share the stage.
Why have animals become so ubiquitous on the contemporary stage? What are theatre-makers trying to achieve by increasingly peopling their landscapes with nonhuman figures and, indeed, actors? Taking stock of the expanding presence, role and agency of animals in British theatre and drama over recent decades, this book investigates the payoffs – conceptual, cognitive, aesthetic, and political – of an art practice that purposefully relocates the animal within a culturally powerful anthropocentric stronghold. In their simultaneous engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, the plays considered in this volume provide a larger framework for thinking humanity beyond the human.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction
“a Ten Foot Tall Bird Enters”
Chapter Two: Re-visionings
- Regarding the Pain of Animals
- Welcome to the Abattoir
- Unaccommodated Man
Chapter Three: Biopolitical Battlefields
- Species at War Animal Trouble
- Unruly Bodies
Chapter Four: New Intimacies, New Anatomies
- Love in the Time of Catastrophe
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Companion Species
Chapter Five: Dramatis Animalia
- Stealing the Scene Impersonations
- the Animal That Therefore I Am
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350503144 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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