{"product_id":"class-culture-and-tragedy-in-sean-mcevoy-9783030627102","title":"Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth","description":"Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth's most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth's work chronologically from \u003ci\u003eMojo\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) to \u003ci\u003eThe Ferryman\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significantin a variety of ways to Butterworth's presentation of cultural and personal crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean McEvoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030627101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030627102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d","brand":"Sean McEvoy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089067749631,"sku":"9783030627102","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e538053f-3f95-4224-9a1c-9cf8be8e6863.jpg?v=1769108014","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-culture-and-tragedy-in-sean-mcevoy-9783030627102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}