The Bible and modern British drama: from 1930 to the present-day

Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andr...

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Auteur principal: Brewer, Mary F. 1968- (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publié: London New York Routledge 2020
Dans:Année: 2020
Collection/Revue:Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Anglais / Théâtre / Bibel / Histoire 1930-2019
Sujets non-standardisés:B Religious drama, English 21st century History and criticism
B Religious drama, English 20th century History and criticism
B Bible In literature
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Résumé:Introduction -- Chapter 1 James Bridie's Apocryphal Plays -- Chapter 2 Laurence Housman's Biblical Drama -- Chapter 3 Christopher Fry's Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology -- Chapter 4 From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar -- Chapter 5 The Origins of Christianity Reassessed -- Chapter 6 Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre -- Afterword
"The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analyzed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a 'good' life, both on an individual and social level"--
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:036735232X