{"product_id":"9783030627102","title":"Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth","description":"\u003ch1\u003eClass, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMcEvoy, Sean\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eJez 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-12-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030627102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-62711-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 217\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385535455372,"sku":"9783030627102","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030627102.jpg?v=1776049219","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030627102","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}