{"product_id":"representing-the-rural-on-the-english-stage-performance-and-rurality-in-the-twenty-first-century-9783031264771","title":"Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gemma Edwards\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, \u003ci\u003eRepresenting the Rural\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett's \u003ci\u003eAlbion \u003c\/i\u003eto agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon's \u003ci\u003eThe Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore's \u003ci\u003eCommon\u003c\/i\u003e to Black rural history in Testament's \u003ci\u003eBlack Men Walking\u003c\/i\u003e, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While \u003ci\u003eRepresenting the Rural\u003c\/i\u003e is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Gemma Edwards is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work focuses on place, politics, and performance, particularly in non-metropolitan contexts. She has published on rurality in contemporary theatre, and her next project explores race, class, and English nationhood from 1945 to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45275833073815,"sku":"9783031264771","price":9548.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031264771.webp?v=1769284022","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/representing-the-rural-on-the-english-stage-performance-and-rurality-in-the-twenty-first-century-9783031264771","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}