Contemporary European Playwrights
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 39588987
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315111940
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138084216
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- 'Contemporary European Playwrights' is a 187,107-word volume, co-edited by Maria Delgado, Bryce Lease and Dan Rebellato that examines the work of 37 key European writers who have reshaped European theatre by finding new ways of expressing the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture. The three editors undertook preliminary research to identify a group of 37 writers from northern, central, eastern, and western Europe, ensuring due attention be paid to those working at the peripheries of the continent as well as nations whose boundaries had shifted in the period post-1989 (as with Serbia and Croatia). Collaborating closely with the contributors – all identified for their research on the dramatists concerned or the cultures of writing in the specific nations featured in the volume — they finalised the final group of playwrights, to provide a cross-section of paired writers from 18 countries and to identify playwrights who would provide authored contributions (David Greig’s afterword and Tiago Rodrigues’s foreword) as well as interviews. Demonstrable research contribution is also present in the guidance provided to all contributors on key issues to be addressed in the volume: European writing in the aftermath of 1989; cultures of playwriting across different nations; borders and their discontents; transnational journeys of key dramatic works. Lease co-authored the 9,367-word introduction and authored a 8,218-word chapter on two Polish dramatists: Paweł Demirski and Dorota Masłowska, as well as conducting two interviews (i) with Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri about postmigrant writing and multi-ethnic theatre making and (ii) Weronika Szczwańska and Agnieszka Jakimiak about changing writing cultures in Poland and more widely in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the developing role of the dramaturg after 1989.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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