书目名称 | Madness in Contemporary British Theatre | 副标题 | Resistances and Repr | 编辑 | Jon Venn | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides a much needed consideration of the relationship between madness and performance.Tackles close readings of key plays by writers such as Sarah Kane, Lucy Prebble, and debbie tucker green.Consid | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British..theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health,..and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings..of mental health. Carefully, it suggests what it means to represent madness in..theatre, and the avenues through which such representations can become..radical, whereby theatre can act as a site of resistance... ..Engaging with the heterogeneity of madness, each chapter covers different.attributes and logics, including: the constitution and institutional structures of..the contemporary asylum; the cultural idioms behind hallucination; the means by..which suicide is apprehended and approached; how testimony of the mad person..is interpreted and encountered... ..As a study that interrogates a wide range of British theatre across the past 30..years, and includes a theoretical interrogation of the politics of madness, this is..a crucial work for any student or researcher, across disciplines, considering the..politics of madness and its relationship to performance.. | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Sarah Kane; Joe Penhall; Bobby Baker; Lucy Prebble; James Leadbitter; debbie tucker green; Mental health; P | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79782-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-79784-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-79782-9 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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