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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 February 2010
      23 April 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511597800
      9780521383356
      9780521032711
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597800
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.475kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.332kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre
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    In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and two of his plays: The Garden Party and The Memorandum. These playwrights portray language's power within our political, social and interpersonal worlds. The violence that language does, the 'tyranny of words', grabs centre stage in their plays. Characters are manipulated and defined through language, their actions and identity limited by verbal options, in order to reveal the links between language and power. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of drama, theatre history, American and European literature, and comparative literature.

    Reviews

    "In Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama, Jeanette R. Malkin considers plays by Pinter, Mamet, Albee and Shepard that use the manipulation of language and logical thinking to destroy institutions, character and interpersonal relationships." Backstage

    "...Malkin's significant contribution lies in her solid work of unifying under this conceptual banner an otherwise unwieldy amalgam of contemporary plays." Robert Baker-White, Essays in Theatre

    "No one should teach plays by Ionesco, Pinter, Havel, Kroetz, Bond, Mamet, Shepard, or Albee without reading Verbal Violence...." Servanne Woodward, Comparative Drama

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