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These green and pleasant lands : travellers, gypsies and the lament for England in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem
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Holdsworth, Nadine (2016) These green and pleasant lands : travellers, gypsies and the lament for England in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. In: Adiseshiah, Sian and Lepage, Louise, (eds.) Twenty-First Century Drama : : What Happens Now. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 175-190. ISBN 9781137484024
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1_9
Abstract
In this chapter, Holdsworth looks at how Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem (2009) responded to a climate of political debate, media rhetoric and cultural representations that reflected a growing fascination and unease with the presence of Gypsy and Traveller communities at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the original Royal Court production, it explores how Butterworth created the complex ‘heroic’ figure of Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron to reveal the contradictions evident in simplistic distinctions between the civilised ‘good’ society of traditional ‘settled’ communities and the amoral ‘unsettled’ life epitomised by Byron. In turn, it comments on the reasons why critics and audiences embraced Jerusalem as a state-of-the-nation piece that offered insightful reflection on England, national identity and belonging.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9781137484024 | ||||
Book Title: | Twenty-First Century Drama : : What Happens Now | ||||
Editor: | Adiseshiah, Sian and Lepage, Louise | ||||
Official Date: | 18 June 2016 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 348 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 175-190 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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