Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34A-05096
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110403909
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/166393/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book’s claim for double-weighting resides in: (1) research depth, demonstrated by its extensive critique of European scholarship on theatrical character since the 1970s, elucidation of how three philosophical theories of subjectivity can invigorate character studies, and detailed engagement with four case studies; (2) complexity, in accounting for, building and modelling a new critical framework to study character; (3) methodological ambition, straddling European theatre history, theatre scholarship across four languages (including untranslated sources), continental philosophy and dramaturgical analysis; and (4) the sustained investigation of British ‘character-less’ plays from different theoretical perspectives to illuminate the conceptual heterogeneities in this playwriting practice.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
