Adorno and Modern Theatre : The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Prologue: ‘After Auschwitz’: Survival of the Aesthetic....Pages 1-23 Adorno and Beckett: from the Crisis of Schein to the Fidelity to Failure....Pages 24-45 Edward Bond and the Aesthetics of Resistance....Pages 46-85 David Rudkin’s Theatre of Myth....Pages 86-104 Howard Barker’s Theatre of Desire....Pages 105-145 Sarah Kane or how to ‘scrape a life out of the ruins’....Pages 146-162 Epilogue: Adorno, Tragedy and Theatre as Negation....Pages 163-181 Back Matter....Pages 182-206