Titlebook: Biographical Theatre; Re-Presenting Real P Ursula Canton Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011 auth

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Book 2011Marilyn Monroe, Vincent van Gogh or the victims of rendition flights – the number and variety of historical and contemporary figures represented on British stages is amazing. This book develops a new theoretical framework for the representation of real life figures on stage and examines different ways in which they can be included in performances.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306875authenticity; bibliography; biography; expectation; interview; knowledge; living; methodology; performance; s

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978-1-349-32242-8Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33939-5a defining feature of biographical theatre. Reflecting this emphasis on conceptual questions, the point of departure for this discussion is not a number of specific biographical plays, but theoretical concepts from related disciplines that are also concerned with the way in which historical material

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33939-5ctoria has had a profound impact on British biographical theatre to this date. A great number of plays performed after the abolition of censorship, perhaps even the majority, follow this model, grounding the presentation of past lives in discourses that are considered to be ‘historically accurate’,

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33939-5ories in the world outside the theatre. The exclusive or partial reliance on thematic extra-theatricality in . and . is more strongly associated with the intention to reconstruct events from the life world and its inhabitants on stage, but . demonstrates that formal intra-theatricality can also be u

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04853-2account. The analysis of productions in the previous chapters has identified different patterns of references and has sought to identify their impact on practitioners’ work. This has allowed educated guesses to be made about the elements that can trigger, maintain or contradict a biographical mode o

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