Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

by Sean McEvoy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030627136
• ISBN13: 9783030627133
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"