A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.

• An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
• Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
• Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005 features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005 is available in Paperback, Hardback

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005 was written by Mary Luckhurst and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005 has 584 pages

Yes it is part of Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series

£38.66