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Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

Orr, John

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Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society

Literary CriticismGeneral DramaGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333536975
ISBN13: 9780333536971
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 23 1991
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, it is argued, illuminate the forms of pleasure, fear, performance and corruption which dominate our daily lives. Tragicomedy is seen as unique becuae of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

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