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This book is the first comprehensive study of the presence of animals in contemporary British drama and theatre and their thought-provoking intersections with the human characters and actors with whom they have increasingly come to share the stage.
Why have animals become so ubiquitous on the contemporary stage? What are theatre-makers trying to achieve by increasingly peopling their landscapes with nonhuman figures and, indeed, actors? Taking stock of the expanding presence, role and agency of animals in British theatre and drama over recent decades, this book investigates the payoffs – conceptual, cognitive, aesthetic, and political – of an art practice that purposefully relocates the animal within a culturally powerful anthropocentric stronghold. In their simultaneous engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, the plays considered in this volume provide a larger framework for thinking humanity beyond the human.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on terminology
Introduction: 'A ten foot tall bird enters'
1. Re-visionings
Regarding the pain of animals
Welcome to the abattoir
Unaccommodated man
2. Biopolitical battlefields
Species at war
Border trouble
Unruly bodies
3. New intimacies, new identities
Dangerous liaisons
Companion species
4. Dramatis animalia
Stealing the scene
Intruders and saboteurs
Getting into the act
Impersonations
The animal that therefore I am
Chronology of works discussed
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of animals
Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350503168 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 3 bw illus |
| Series | Methuen Drama Engage |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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