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 \nModern BritishDrama andLiterary Theory  \nEdited byAdrian Page  \nInsights  \nGeneral Editor:Clive Bloom,Principal Lecturer in English,MiddlesexPolytechnic  \nEditorial Board:Clive Bloom,Brian Docherty,Gary Day,Lesley Bloomand Hazel Day  \nInsights brings to academics,students and general readers the verybest contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas.It consists of anthologies,each containing original contributions byadvanced scholars and experts.Each contribution concentrates on astudy of a particular work,author or genre in its artistic,historicaland cultural context.  \nPublished titles  \nClive Bloom(editor)  \nJACOBEAN POETRY AND PROSE:Rhetoric,Representation andthe Popular Imagination  \nTWENTIETH-CENTURY SUSPENSE:The Thriller Comes of Age  \nSPY THRILLERS:From Buchan to le Carré  \nClive Bloom,Brian Docherty,Jane Gibb and Keith Shand(editors)NINETEENTH-CENTURY SUSPENSE:From Poe to Conan Doyle  \nGary Day(editor)READINGS IN POPULAR CULTURE:Trivial Pursuits?  \nGary Day and Clive Bloom(editors)  \nPERSPECTIVES ON PORNOGRAPHY:Sexuality in Film andLiterature  \nBrian Docherty(editor)  \nAMERICAN CRIME FICTION:Studies in the Genre  \nAMERICANHORROR FICTION:From Brockden Brown to StephenKing  \nRhys Garnett and R.J.Ellis(editors)  \nSCIENCE FICTION ROOTS AND BRANCHES:ContemporaryCritical Approaches  \nRobert Giddings(editor)LITERATURE AND IMPERIALISM  \nRobert Giddings,Keith Selby and Chris Wensley  \nSCREENING THE NOVEL:The Theory and Practice of LiteraryDramatisation  \nPaul Hyland and Neil Sammells(editors)IRISH WRITING:Exile and Subversion  \nMark Lilly(editor)LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING:An Anthology of Critical Essays  \nChristopher Mulvey and John Simons(editors)NEW YORK:City as Text  \nAdrian Page(editor)  \nTHE DEATH OF THE PLAYWRIGHT?Modern British Dramaand Literary Theory  \nJeffrey Walsh and James Aulich(editors)VIETNAM IMAGES:War and Representation  \nThe Death of thePlaywright?  \nModern British Drama andLiterary Theory  \nEdited by Adrian PagePrincipal Lecturer in English andCommunication StudiesLuton College of Higher Education  \n◎ The Editorial Board,Lumiere Cooperative Press Ltd 1992  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,33-4 Alfred Place,London WC1E 7DP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation tothis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst published 1992  \nPublished by  \nMACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTDHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nThe death of the playwright?Modern British drama andliterary theory.—(Insights)  \n1.Drama in English,—1945—Critical Studies  \nI.Page,Adrian II.Series82291409  \nISBN 978-0-333-51316-3  \nISBN 978-1-349-21906-3(eBook)  \nDOI10.1007/978-1-349-21906-3  \nContents  \nPreface  \nAcknowledgements  \nNotes on the Contributors  \nix1  \n1 IntroductionAdrian Page  \n2 The World Made Flesh':Women and Theatre2Judith Thompson  \n3 Popular Drama and Realism:The Case of Television43Chris Pawling and Tessa Perkins  \n4 Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey as Serious Text:67A Semiotic ReadingEdward J.Esche  \n5 The Eye of Judgement:Samuel Beckett's Later Drama 82Audrey McMullan  \n6 Bakhtin,Foucault,Beckett,Pinter97Peter Griffith  \n7 Forms of Dissent in Contemporary Drama and115Contemporary TheoryRick Rylance  \n8 An Age of Surfaces:Joe Orton's Drama and142PostmodernismAdrian Page  \n9 The Plays of Caryl Churchill:Essays in Refusal160Jane Thomas  \nContents  \nvi  \nStaging the Other Scene:a Psychoanalytic Approach","cbCaic2QTS6NRVHj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic2QTS6NRVHj","pdf",23906410,223,"English","# Preface\n# Acknowledgements\n# Notes on the Contributors\n# Introduction\n# The World Made Flesh': Women and Theatre\n# Popular Drama and Realism: The Case of Television\n# Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey as Serious Text: A Semiotic Reading\n# The Eye of Judgement: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama\n# Bakhtin, Foucault, Beckett, Pinter\n# Forms of Dissent in Contemporary Drama and Contemporary Theory\n# An Age of Surfaces: Joe Orton's Drama and Postmodernism\n# The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Essays in Refusal\n# Staging the Other Scene: a Psychoanalytic Approach to Contemporary British Political Drama\n# Select Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What themes does the book’s preface say the essays address?\",\"answer\":\"The essays debate issues arising from contemporary literary theory and apply those ideas to modern drama, emphasizing new theoretical approaches and re-reading canonical works.\"},{\"question\":\"Which theoretical traditions are highlighted as sources for the authors’ approaches?\",\"answer\":\"The preface lists post-structuralism, semiotics, feminism, Bakhtinian theory, and psychoanalysis as the foundations for the essays’ methods.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the introduction connect theory and drama in the collection?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction addresses theoretical issues raised by Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” and surveys writing on the relationship between literary theory and drama.\"}]","The Death of the Playwright? 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