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Author:   Nadine Holdsworth (University of Warwick, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.444kg
ISBN:  

9781032925615

ISBN 10:   1032925612
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   14 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"1. Introduction Nadine Holdsworth Part I: Revisiting ‘National’ Plays and Cultural Icons 2. ""It’s just changed color?"": Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries? Anton Krueger 3. Over and Beyond Under Milk Wood: Dylan Thomas, National Icons and Re-Imagining the Cultural Landscape of Wales Nadine Holdsworth 4. Within These Walls: The Beaux Stratagem, the City of Derry and ‘the only Loyalist theatre producer in Ireland’ Wallace McDowell Part II: Directing the National Repertoire 5. La Casa De Bernarda Alba [The House of Bernard Alba]: Federica Garcia Lorca, the Spanish Civil War and the Issue of Historical Memory Maria M. Delgado 6. An Inspector Calls and Calls Again: Nation, Community and the Individual in J. B. Priestley’s Play Maggie B. Gale 7. Stealing the Scene: Simon McBurney’s All My Sons in New York Marvin Carlson Part III: The Nation’s ‘Imagined Community’ 8. Born in YU: Performing, Negotiating, and Transforming an Abject Identity Silvija Jestrovic 9. What Happened to Our Nation of Culture? Staging the Theatre of the Other Germany Peter M. Boenisch Part IV: Nations in Flux 10. ""Once Again With Feeling"": Emily of Emerald Hill as Floating Signifier KK Seet 11. The Takarazuka Revue’s Wind in the Dawn: (De-)nationalization of Japanese Women Nobuko Anan 12. ‘Members of a Chorus of a Certain Tragedy’: Euripides’ Orestes at the National Theatre of Greece Marilena Zaroulia"

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Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on modern and contemporary theatre including Joan Littlewood's Theatre (2011), Theatre & Nation (2010) and co-edited (with Mary Luckhurst) A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (2008).

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