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This chapter responds to a revival of interest in social class, particularly working-class identity, class relations and class exploitation on theatre stages and in scholarship in the twenty-first century. The focus is onJez Butterworth’s... more
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      Contemporary British TheatreClassContemporary DramaContemporary Literature
This paper examines the distinctive British dramatist Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman (2017) as an English revenge tragedy. The well-received play demonstrates the tragic course of an extended family during "the Troubles" of Northern... more
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      DramaRevenge TragedyIrelandThemes in Literature
This article traces how Jez Butterworth’s play Jerusalem (2009) portrays, in its main character Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, the figure of what Giorgio Agamben calls the homo sacer, the bare life, as a character that encapsulates both the... more
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      Theatre StudiesContemporary British TheatreGiorgio AgambenTheatre
Er(r)go… , … co za teatr! Do wyboru: teatr interkulturowy, teatr transkulturowy, teatr ultrakulturowy, teatr metakulturowy, teatr multikulturowy, teatr międzykulturowy, teatr postdramatyczny, teatr ludowy, teatr obrzędowy i... more
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      Theatre StudiesDance StudiesPerformance StudiesPerformance Art
The paper takes several texts (Berkoff’s Greek, Bond’s trilogy, The War Plays, Rosenthal’s L.O.W. in Gaia, Kushner’s Angels in America, Butterworth’s The Night Heron, Ridley’s Mercury Fur and Eclipse, Washburn’s Mr. Burns, and Churchill’s... more
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      Caryl ChurchillPhilip RidleyApocalyptic ImaginationApocalypse