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Caryl Churchill s plays are internationally performed studied and acclaimed by practitioners theatre scholars critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill s extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis sexual politics revolution terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill s major collaborations her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill s career-long experimentation - her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill s poetic precision dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
Editions of The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780521493222
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780521728942
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Caryl Churchill s plays are internationally performed studied and acclaimed by practitioners theatre scholars critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill s extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis sexual politics revolution terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill s major collaborations her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill s career-long experimentation - her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill s poetic precision dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
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What is The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill about?
Caryl Churchill s plays are internationally performed studied and acclaimed by practitioners theatre scholars critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill s extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis sexual politics revolution terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill s major collaborations her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill s career-long experimentation - her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill s poetic precision dark wit and inexhaustible creativity.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: plays and playwrights
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill?
Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond
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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780521493222) and paperback(ISBN 9780521728942)