Of Precariousness

Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-054674-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Contemporary Drama in English Studies

Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which contemporary British drama and theatre engage with ‘the precarious’. Crucially, what emerges from the discussion of a wide range of plays – including Jez Butterworth’s , Caryl Churchill’s , Martin Crimp’s and , Tim Crouch’s , Forced Entertainment’s , David Greig’s and , Dennis Kelly’s , Mark Ravenhill’s , Philip Ridley’s , Robin Soans’s , Simon Stephens’s , theTheatre Uncut project, debbie tucker green’s and Laura Wade’s – is the observation that contemporary (British) drama and theatre often realises its thematic and formal/structural potential to the full precisely by reflecting upon the category and the episteme of precariousness, and deliberately turning audience members into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middeke, Martin

Aragay, Mireia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, Spain; Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany.