Sarah Kane in context Essays

by De Vos, Lauren; Saunders, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780719077395
• ISBN10: 0719077397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-03
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

From the controversy in 1995 that heraldedBlasted, to her death in February 1999, Sarah Kane built a reputation as an established playwright of international stature. This is the first volume of collected essays by some of the leading scholars in their field, providing a comprehensive approach to the body of work she produced in this brief period. Essays included cover the political, literary and theatrical identities that have exerted influence on Kane's work, as well as discussing and assessing her innovative theatrical experiments and the performative issues that arise from within the plays. Sarah Kane in Contextexamines one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the "In-Yer Face" generation of British dramatists in the 1990s and provides an essential guide to Kane for students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

Lauren de Vos is a Lecturer in Comparative Litereature at Ghent University. Graham Saunders is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Note to the text	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
List of figures	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Surrounding voices
Reviewing the fabric of Blasted	p. 13
Sarah Kane before Blasted: the monologues	p. 28
'Looks like there's a war on': Sarah Kane's Blasted, political theatre and the Muslim Other	p. 45
Staging power: the politics of sex and death in Seneca's Phaedra and Kane's Phaedra's Love	p. 57
The Beckettian world of Sarah Kane	p. 68
Cruelty, violence and rituals in Sarah Kane's plays	p. 80
Sarah Kane, experiential theatre and the revenant avant-garde	p. 88
Subjectivity, responsibility and representation
The voice of Kane	p. 103
'I love you now': time and desire in the plays of Sarah Kane	p. 115
Sarah Kane and Antonin Artaud: cruelty towards the subjectile	p. 126
Posthumanist identities in Sarah Kane	p. 139
Neither here nor there: theatrical space in Kane's work	p. 149
'Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander': critical distance in Sarah Kane's Theatre of Cruelty	p. 161
Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love: staging the implacable	p. 173
Under the surface of things: Sarah Kane's Skin and the medium of theatre	p. 184
'We are anathema'-Sarah Kane's plays as postdramatic theatre versus the 'dreary and repugnant tale of sense'	p. 195
Epilogue: 'The mark of Kane'	p. 209
References	p. 221
Index	p. 235
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