Theater of the Precariat: Staging Precarity in Alexander Zeldin's Love

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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI:10.3368/cl.61.3.335

Peter Simonsen, M. Aarhus

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Abstract

he precariat populates the contemporary British stage, featured in prominent playhouses such as the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre. Many new and significant works of British theater have focused on staging and debating, giving bodies, faces, words, voices, and emotional lives to this new social group, collective, or class-in-the-making. They have participated in imagining the contours of an identity for this heterogeneous entity and possibly―as political theater―opened more people’s eyes to the intolerable living conditions experienced by those forced to inhabit an insecure state of precarity. Showing vulnerable and insecure bodies and minds onstage reveals how everyday life may feel to specifically situated and embodied members of the precariat by exposing the audience to experiences drenched in stress, anxiety, fear, and anger. This essay joins work by Marissia Fragkou and Jen Harvie to offer a foray into this new tendency in

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; we also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices.