Modern British Drama: anger and the Centralization of the Marginal

• Autores: María José de la Torre Moreno
• Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 18, 1994, págs. 55-64
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The question approached in this paper is of a modern nature in more than one way (understanding "modern" lato senso, i.e., as opposed to distant in time). It deals with a recent phenomenon in British drama, and articulates a modern issue: social and cultural mobility, and in short, the relativity of things both in life an art. We will concern ourselves with the change which the angry generation brought about in the dramatic scene, whose outlines will be sketchily revised in the first part of the article. The discussion of the new plays (a selection of some by the most representative authors) involves showing the thematic features they all share at one level or another, which, as the title indicates, ultimately come down to a displacement of the traditional canon margins order. This analysis will reveal the different ways in which this disruption is accomplished.