Contemporary European Playwrights
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- MDEL6
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315111940
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315111940
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- 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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- 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 187,000-word critical volume, co-edited by Maria Delgado, Bryce Lease (RHUL), and Dan Rebellato (RHUL) 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 dramatists from northern, central, eastern, and western Europe, ensuring due attention be paid to those working at the geographical peripheries of the continent (including Ireland, Spain, and Greece) as well as nations whose boundaries shifted in the period post-1989 (Serbia and Croatia). Collaborating closely with the contributors, the co-editors finalised the final group of playwrights, to provide a cross-section of paired writers from 18 countries. Furthermore, the co-editors identified playwrights who would provide authored contributions (David Greig’s afterword and Tiago Rodrigues’s foreword) and interviews (Marie NDiaye, Jonas Hassen Khemeri, Weronicka Szczawińska). Delgado’s research contribution was central to the shaping of the volume and the integration, across the chapters, of critical and cultural debates around the key themes identified, such as European writing in the aftermath of 1989, cultures of playwriting across different nations, borders and their discontents, and transnational journeys of key dramatic works. The 9,367-word introduction (co-authored by Delgado, Lease, and Rebellato) weaves these themes together, along with navigating the task of connecting the substantial portfolio of contributions and situating the volume both in the field of contemporary playwriting studies and more broadly in the field of European cultural studies. Delgado’s 10,870-word chapter focusses on two Spanish dramatists: Juan Mayorga and Jordi Galceran, whose work has been translated across over 30 languages, but remains subject to limited scholarly attention in the English-speaking world.
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- Non-English
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