Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing decadent themes and styles, and dramatists were no exception. Decadence offered these writers a framework for exploring nonconformist identities and beliefs that challenged behavioural norms as much as the desirability of modern progress. Decadent plays were at once behind the times in their celebration of antiquity, and forwardthinking in their staging of themes that have become all the more timely in the 21st century, including queerness, unconventional eroticism, and critiques of empire and industrial progress. Equally, the diversity of decadent drama cannot be pigeonholed many of these plays still have the capacity to offend worldviews, and invite us to interrogate presentday conventions and propriety.International in scope and eclectic in content, this edited anthology is an authoritative and accessible introduction to a fastexpanding field of decadent literature. The first publication of its kind to deal with decadent drama, and featuring plays translated into English for the first time, Decadent Plays 1890 to 1930 breaks new ground by foregrounding decadence as a dramatic...

Binding: Paperback;432 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: ANF; Weight: 618 g; Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 31

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