TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soncini, Sara
TI  - Forms of conflict: contemporary wars on the British stage 
T2  - Exeter Performance Studies
AV  - PN1650.W3 S66 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Exeter
PB  - University of Exeter Press
KW  - English drama
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Political plays, English
KW  - History and criticism.
KW  - War in literature.
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-285) and index.
N2  - This full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the 'new wars' of the global era. To say that drama is intimately bound up with conflict - and conflict resolution - is almost a platitude. Even the quintessentially theatrical nature of the vocabulary that we commonly use to describe war would seem to point to the stage as a suitable space to interrogate the mechanics of conflict. The representation of war in the theatre has systematically raised the issue of representability, testing both the limits and the potential of the medium. The book questions how dramatists have responded aesthetically to the changing nature of conflict, focusing mainly on plays written and performed around or after the September 11 terrorist attacks. By establishing a connection between models of conflict and modes of representation, the book aims to assess the impact on dramatic form and theatrical representation of a consequential paradigm shift in the way wars are waged and perceived
ER  -