{"product_id":"the-contemporary-history-play-benjamin-poore-9781350462106","title":"The Contemporary History Play: Staging English and American Pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eSomething exciting is happening with the contemporary history play.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNew writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama.\u003c\/b\u003e In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Contemporary History Play\u003c\/i\u003e contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor theatre scholars, this book\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Poore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350462101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350462106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Benjamin Poore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112791421183,"sku":"9781350462106","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6124666-bb18-4254-a3a6-76d12a4f69fb.jpg?v=1769610966","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-contemporary-history-play-benjamin-poore-9781350462106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}