Southern Illinois University Press 1988 Hardcover Good

ISBN10: 0809314614, ISBN13: 9780809314614, [publisher: Southern Illinois University Press December 1988] Hardcover
[St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

Brand: Southern Illinois University Press, Date: 1988-12-26. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 1988. Brand: Southern Illinois University Press ISBN 0809314614 9780809314614 [US]

ISBN10: 0809314614, ISBN13: 9780809314614, [publisher: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press] Hardcover First Edition Product Description This is the first comprehensive play-by-play analysis of the drama of David Storey, one of the most acclaimed and innovative, sometimes controversial, writers in the British theatre since World War II. Grouping the plays according to theme, Hutchings demonstrates that the central focus in the drama of David Storey is the devaluation of traditional rituals in contemporary life and the disintegration of the family. A playwright attuned to the poetry in the ordinary, to the profundity, subtle eloquence, and dramatic tension in the mundane, Storey explores the ways people cope, or fail to cope, with complexity, with uncertainty, with constant, bewildering flux. He writes about groups-families (In Celebration, The Farm), rugby teams (The Changing Room), and construction crews (The Contractor). In his plays, individuals seek to overcome isolation and integrate themselves into a significant assemblage that transcends the self.Hutchings notes that Storey frequently deals with working-class parents who cannot "understand their grown childrens anxieties, their discontentedness with life, their unstable marriages, and their inability to enjoy the benefits of the education and advantages they labored so hard for so many years to provide."Storey understands and sympathizes with parents who have paid to educate their ...

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Date: 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. 1988. Southern Illinois University Press ISBN 0809314614 US

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