Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama by Berry, Sarah
Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama by Berry, Sarah

Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on...
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Author: Sarah Berry
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Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama by Berry, Sarah

Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama

$434.13
Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama by Berry, Sarah

Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama

$434.13
Author: Sarah Berry
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone verse drama, tracing it back to an experimental impulse that is present in the modernist verse drama of a century ago.

Covering major writers including Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, Dorothy Sayers, Djuna Barnes, and Ntozake Shange, it also encompasses lesser known and more recent poets and playwrights. This modern verse drama differs from its ancient and Elizabethan antecedents as it is understood not as a genre in its own right, but as a hybrid of the lyric and the dramatic. Both modernist and contemporary writers take advantage of this hybridity as fertile ground for experimentation. While they differ in their ideology and form, this book contends that they are united by exploring the relationship between lyric and dramatic elements on stage and what these two different modes afford. To demonstrate this continuity, it traces a genealogy from contemporary plays by Joanna Laurens, Joyelle McSweeney, and David Grieg back to W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, to reveal that the tensions that animate verse drama have stayed the same, even as the strategies for staging them have evolved.

The book is divided into three sections-'Voice, ' 'Words, ' and 'Time'-each treating one feature that has been used to define the lyric. Within these sections, the chapters compare contemporary plays with modernist ones that experiment with the same point of tension between the lyric and the dramatic.

Author: Sarah Berry
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 12/12/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781350420380

About the Author
Sarah Berry is an assistant professor of English at the University of Dallas, USA. She has published articles in Literature/Film Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, Christianity and Literature, and Twentieth Century Literature as well as reviews in Modern Drama and Modernism/Modernity.
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