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To Be Like Water: Material Dramaturgies in Posthumanist Performance 像水一样:后人类主义表演中的物质戏剧

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0008

R. Mosse, Anna Street

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Kinship and Community in Climate-Change Theatre: Ecodramaturgy in Practice 气候变化戏剧中的亲缘关系与社区:生态戏剧的实践

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0011

T. May

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Writing in the Green: Imperatives towards an Eco-n-temporary Theatre Canon 在绿色中写作:对生态临时戏剧规范的要求

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0003

Vicky Angelaki

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Encounters in the Chthulucene: Simon McBurney’s Theatre of Compost Chthulcene的邂逅：西蒙·麦克伯尼的堆肥剧院

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0007

S. Ayache

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An Ecology of Plants: The Post-Manufacturing Age in Philip Ridley’s Shivered and David Eldridge’s In Basildon 植物生态学:菲利普·雷德利的《颤栗》和大卫·埃尔德里奇的《在巴顿》中的后制造业时代

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0014

Christian Attinger

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Eco-Drama, Multinational Corporations, and Climate Change in Nigeria 尼日利亚的生态戏剧、跨国公司和气候变化

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0012

R. C. Amaefula

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Performing Resilience: Anchorage and Leverage in Live Action Role-Play Drama 表演弹性:锚定和杠杆在真人角色扮演戏剧

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0006

Jamie Harper

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Mark Brown. Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969: A Revolution on Stage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xvii + 254 pp., € 80.24 (hardback), € 24.99 (softcover). 马克·布朗。1969年以来的现代主义和苏格兰戏剧：舞台上的革命。Cham:Palgrave Macmillan，2019，xvii+254页，80.24欧元（精装本），24.99欧元（软封面）。

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2022-0019

D. Pattie

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This Is England 2021: Staging England and Englishness in Contemporary Theatre 《这就是英格兰2021》：在当代戏剧中上演英格兰与英国

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2021-10-23 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2021-0024

G. Edwards

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Sarah J. Ablett. Dramatic Disgust: Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane. Bielefeld: transcript, 2020, 199 pp., €38.00 (paperback), €37.99 (PDF ebook). Sarah J. Ablett。戏剧厌恶:从索福克勒斯到萨拉·凯恩的美学理论与实践。比勒菲尔德:成绩单，2020年，199页，38.00欧元(平装本)，37.99欧元(PDF电子书)。

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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English Pub Date : 2021-10-23 DOI: 10.1515/jcde-2021-0028

Laurens De Vos

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