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Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

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Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

By: Lea Jasmin Gutscher

With her controversial stage art, the young playwright Sarah Kane broke new dramaturgic ground and made a lasting impression that changed British drama forever. Even though it is part of the canon covering post-war drama, Kane’s work has often met with misunderstanding and fierce criticism due to the uncountable representations of atrocities. How can we make sense of Kane’s seemingly crude and bleak theatre? Mainly concentrating on the play Cleansed, the author examines the nature of violence in Kane’s writing. What purpose does it serve? Is it simply employed for its shock value? Or is it rather used as a metaphor? Kane herself considered her third full-length play as a play about love. In suggesting a figurative reading of the late playwright’s texts, the author shows how Kane embraces violence as a metaphor of the various sufferings both love and life perpetrate upon the human being. Locked beneath the revolting cruelties, we can find a vivid theatricality, powerful images, and a unique rhythm and sound of language.

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3954893320

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Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed"

By: Lea Jasmin Gutscher

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Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed"

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften Institut f r Englische Philologie), course: Abschlussarbeit Englische Literaturwissenschaft, 78 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When Sarah Kane, born in 1971 in Essex, England, committed suicide at the age of 28 in February 1999, she left five plays and the script for a ten minute screenplay. Kane had dedicated much of her short life to the understanding, exploration and (re)invention of drama. While still at school she started writing and acting, activities which she continued at university, where she further experimented with theatre and where she also took up directing. After leaving the University of Bristol with a First Class Honours Degree in drama studies, she enrolled at Birmingham University and crowned her education with a Master's degree in playwriting. After several minor dramatic experiments, staged as student productions in unofficial venues, her first full-length play, Blasted, premi red at the Royal Court Theatre in London in January 1995. The play immediately became notorious for its depiction of all kinds of physical and verbal violence for which it was fiercely attacked by both public opinion and reviewers. The fact that the plays which followed contained many unspeakable scenes of sheer cruelty, earned her the reputation as the enfant terrible of contemporary British drama. During her brief career Sarah Kane created a body of work that brought her both success and notoriety. Her controversial theatre divided critics and audiences from the beginning. While some attacked her persistently, others recognised her as a new voice, and after she explored and discovered different linguistic and theatrical devices, critical approval followed.

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3640222725

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Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

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3954898322

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Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed"

Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed"

Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre

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