Martin Crimp's power plays : intertextuality, sexuality, desire /

Angelaki, Vicky, 1980-

Martin Crimp's power plays : intertextuality, sexuality, desire / authored by Vicky Angelaki. - 1 online resource

SIBF2023

P.B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Surveying the battleground : Martin Crimp's relationscapes -- Imitating art : fiction pieces and short plays -- Mating for life : men asleep -- Handling with care : Cyrano de Bergerac and when we have sufficiently tortured each other -- Falling tragically : The rest will be familiar to you from cinema and Lessons in love and violence -- Afterword: Forever Cruel and tender.

"This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies"--

9781003033400

2022014923


Crimp, Martin, 1956- --Criticism and interpretation.


English drama--History and criticism.--21st century
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Sex in literature.


Literary criticism.

PR6053.R495

822/.914