Overview
- Articulates Graham’s importance as a contemporary dramatist
- Provides detailed analysis of Graham’s published works relevant to practitioners, performers and audiences
- Positions the writer at the heart of state-of-the-nation commentary in contemporary drama
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About this book
James Graham is one of the UK’s leading dramatists, a multi-award-winning writer who for almost 20 years has analysed and articulated concepts of power and authority in modern British society. James Graham: State of the Nation Playwright is the first full-length assessment of the writer’s output, applying core thematic areas - Democracy, Anarchy, Famous Faces and Television - to understand how different power bases operate in modern society, their effectiveness and influence, and how they came to pre-eminence during the last 70 years. The book concludes with an evaluation of Graham’s contribution to state-of-the-nation debates, Britain’s cycles of decline and its consequences for understanding contemporary national identity.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assumed Power
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The State of the Nation
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Maryam Philpott is a theatre critic with over 10 years’ experience writing for The Reviews Hub and her own site Cultural Capital dedicated to long-form theatre criticism, placing reviews in a broader historical and performance context. With a background in social and cultural history, previous publications include the peer reviewed academic monograph Air and Sea Power in World War One: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy, published by Bloomsbury.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: James Graham
Book Subtitle: State of the Nation Playwright
Authors: Maryam Philpott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59663-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59662-9Published: 01 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59665-0Due: 15 June 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59663-6Published: 31 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 294
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Theatre and Performance Studies, Cultural Policy and Politics