{"product_id":"9783030627102","title":"Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth (1st ed. 2021. 2020. vii, 217 S. VII, 217 p. 210 mm)","description":"Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth's most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth's work chronologically from \u003ci\u003eMojo\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) to \u003ci\u003eThe Ferryman\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significantin a variety of ways to Butterworth's presentation of cultural and personal crisis. \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.- 2. Yakkety Yak: \u003ci\u003eMojo\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).- 3. Exclusion from the Garden: \u003ci\u003eThe Night Heron\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).- 4. Homage: \u003ci\u003eThe Winterling\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).- 5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008).- 6. The Enchanted Wood: \u003ci\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).- 7. Time, Myth and Power: \u003ci\u003eThe River\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).- 8. Allusion: \u003ci\u003eThe Ferryman\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSean McEvoy is a Bye Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK. His research specialisms include early modern English theatre and contemporary British and Irish theatre, with a particular interest in tragedy. Previous publications include \u003ci\u003eHamlet: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eBen Jonson: Renaissance Dramatist\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eTheatrical Unrest: Ten Riots in the History of the Stage 1601-2004\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eTragedy: The Basics \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). \n \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \n \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49201655283939,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9783030627102-1.jpg?v=1788426652","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9783030627102","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}