Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie
The Year of Magical Thinking – Teeth ‘n’ Smiles – Plenty –– The Secret Rapture – Skylight – The Judas Kiss – Amy’s View – My Zinc Bed – The Permanent Way –– The Vertical Hour – Gethsemane
Chapter Two
Howard Barker: Will and Desire – From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious
Claw – Fair Slaughter – That Good Between Us –– The Power of the Dog – Victory – The Castle – The Europeans –– The Possibilities – Gertrude-The Cry – Dead Hands – The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539
Chapter Three
Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse
Saved – Lear – Bingo – The Fool –– Restoration –– The War Plays – Olly’s Prison – At the Inland Sea – Coffee– The Crime of the Twenty-First Century – Chair
Chapter Four
Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Möbius Strip
Seven Jewish Children – Lovesick – Abortive –– Owners – Traps –– Light Shining in Buckinghamshire – Cloud Nine – Top Girls – Fen – A Mouthful of Birds –– Lives of the Great Poisoners – The Skriker – Thyestes ––– Far Away –– A Number
Chapter Five
New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic
Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking – Faust is Dead – Handbag – Some Explicit Polaroids – Product – The Cut – pool (no water) – Sarah Kane: Blasted – Phaedra’s Love – Cleansed – Crave – 4.48 Psychosis
Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem
Works Cited
Index
