ABSTRACT

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Surveying the Battleground: Martin Crimp's Relationscapes

chapter 1|20 pages

Imitating Art

Fiction Pieces and Short Plays

chapter 2|20 pages

Mating for Life

Men Asleep

chapter 3|20 pages

Handling with Care

Cyrano de Bergerac and When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

chapter 4|27 pages

Falling Tragically

The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema and Lessons in Love and Violence