Sarah Kane in context Essays

by De Vos, Lauren; Saunders, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780719086458
• ISBN10: 0719086450
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

From the controversy in 1995 that heralded Blasted, 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 a discussion and assessment of 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 Literature at Ghent University.

 

Graham Saunders is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Laurens De Vos and Graham Saunders

Surrounding Voices

Reviewing the fabric of Blasted

Sarah Kane before Blasted: the monologues

âÇ Looks like thereâÇÖs a war onâÇÖ: Sarah KaneâÇÖs Blasted, political theatre and the Muslim Other

Staging Power: the politics of sex and death in SenecaâÇÖs Phaedra and KaneâÇÖs PhaedraâÇÖs Love

The Beckettian world of Sarah Kane

Cruelty, violence and rituals in Sarah KaneâÇÖs plays

Sarah Kane, experiential theatre and the revenant avant-garde

Subjectivity, Responsibility and Representation

The voice of Kane

âÇ I love you nowâÇÖ: time and desire in the plays of Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane and Antonin Artaud: cruelty towards the subjectile

Posthumanist identities in Sarah Kane

Neither here nor there: theatrical space in KaneâÇÖs work

âÇ Victim. Perpetrator. BystanderâÇÖ: critical distance in Sarah KaneâÇÖs Theatre of Cruelty

Sarah KaneâÇÖs Phaedra's Love: staging the implacable

Under the surface of things. Sarah KaneâÇÖs Skin and the medium of theatre

âÇ We are anathemaâÇÖ âÇô Sarah KaneâÇÖs plays as postdramatic theatre v. the âÇ Dreary and repugnant tale of senseâÇÖ

Epilogue

âÇ The mark of KaneâÇÖ

References

List of Contributors

Index

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