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Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre de Dr Siân Adiseshiah

Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre: Methuen Drama Engage

Autor Dr Siân Adiseshiah
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2024
Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023

As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition - in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre.

Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350349315
ISBN-10: 1350349313
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Methuen Drama Engage

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Dramaturgies of Hope

1. Utopia, Drama, Genre
2. Genealogical Beginnings: Old Comedy, Longing, and Laughter
3. Temporary Utopias of Female Community
4. The Enhanced Utopian Subject
5. Utopia and the Triumph of Ordinary Life
6. Utopian Conversations

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

A beautiful, quietly revolutionary book, never sentimental or overblown, but genuinely moving in its commitment to a transformative politics based on the imaginative formulation of how 'a better world' might look and feel.
Utopian Drama delivers a breakthrough intervention that cracks open the scholarly paradigms of both theatre studies and utopian studies. Neither field has paid substantial attention to utopian drama; but now Siân Adiseshiah brings the full strength of her politically engaged, theoretically sophisticated and analytically astute interpretive skills to addressing this vacuum. In doing so, she expands the scope of intellectual and social engagement available in both fields and generates a much deeper understanding of the entire problematic utopian form and process. This work is truly a gift to us all.

A welcome addition to utopian studies, rightfully placing Bernard Shaw at the center of a discussion of utopian thought on stage . a delightful read for Shavians everywhere.
Siân Adiseshiah's fine and nuanced study of utopian drama is keenly needed at a historical moment when dystopia manifests on all fronts. From Aristophanes to contemporary post-dramatic, non-mimetic performance, this carefully theorized, productively hopeful analysis mines Western theatre traditions for insights into the generative thematic of utopia in drama.
Epic in historical scope and engaging with an array of interdisciplinary frameworks, Utopian Drama dislocates utopia from its established home in prose fiction. Diverse, comedic, and sensory, Adiseshiah's dramatic encounters with utopia contest and redress disciplinary exclusion from Utopian Studies. Ephemeral and nomadic, theatre's utopian acts of imagining differently are those that emerge in this illuminating study as critical to dystopian times.
Siân Adiseshiah is not the first to have noticed the preponderance of dystopian dramas in the long history of the theatre. But she is the first to offer an insightful counter-narrative: a history of dramatic utopias that stretches from Aristophanes through Margaret Cavendish to contemporary drama. Clear-eyed and critical, she nonetheless understands that "we need utopias, too." And in a world riven by forces of separation, whether amplified nationalism or a marauding virus, she reminds us of theater's capacity to imagine and inaugurate new social relations.
Utopian Drama offers both a broad and a concise overview of a dramatic genre that has, so far, escaped scholarly attention . [T]he book's strengths lie . in its grand, groundbreaking vision. With Utopian Drama, Adiseshiah starts the "search" for a genre that has to be continued-and, thanks to her study, can be continued, too.