Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1821
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137484024
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
- 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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first full-length work on twenty-first century drama. As well as including a co-authored introduction and substantial solo-authored chapter by Adiseshiah, the wider editing of the book is informed by research undertaken by Adiseshiah and her co-editor.
Immersive research in the critical literature on contemporary drama, performance, and theatre inspired a deliberately field-shifting decision to articulate changing perspectives beyond the postmodernist frameworks that were still playing a determining role in shaping debate. It also sought to bring into dynamic conversation approaches that revitalised questions of realism, historical representation, belief, and economics and social class, alongside migration, artificial intelligence, posthumanism, and climate change.
This research process underpinned the choice of contributors (who include world-leading experts in contemporary drama and theatre). Careful research-led curation ensured coherence and meaningful dialogue between individual chapters.
All 14 chapters are original essays of 7000-9000 words which received substantial research-led editorial input and went through at least three revisions.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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