Book Description
Over the last two decades Canadian drama has emerged as an important presence in international theatre. In The Buried Astrolabe Craig Walker offers a critical introduction to contemporary Canadian playwriting, providing a context for the study of Canadian drama and showing how it developed from Western European philosophical, literary, and dramatic traditions.
Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition FROM THE PUBLISHER
"The Buried Astrolabe shows that Canadian plays are increasingly being recognized as some of the most important on the international scene. Craig Walker devotes the main body of his critical introduction to readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson. His interpretations shed light on poetics, mythological underpinnings, and the cultural significance of characteristic tropes."--BOOK JACKET.
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A critical introduction to Canadian playwriting, providing a context for the study of Canadian drama and showing how it developed from Western European philosophical, literary, and dramatic traditions. Walker (drama, Queen's U., Montreal) provides critical readings of the work of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson, discussing the distinctive elements of each writer's voice while investigating the plays' mythological underpinnings and the larger cultural significance of characteristic tropes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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