Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama
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Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone verse drama, tracing it back to an experimental impulse that is present in the modernist verse drama of a century ago.
Covering major writers including Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Be...
Covering major writers including Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Be...


