Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth Hardback
by Sean McEvoy
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Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century.
This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language.
Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture.
In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal.
Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:217 pages, VII, 217 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:30/12/2020
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- ISBN:9783030627102
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:217 pages, VII, 217 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:30/12/2020
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- ISBN:9783030627102