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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankHolocaustDramaTheHolocaust–thesystematicattempteddestructionofEuropeanJewryandother“threats”totheThirdReichfrom1933to1945–hasbeenportrayedinfiction,film,memoirs,andpoetry;however,therehasbeenalackofinformationaboutthetheateroftheHolocaust.Theimmediacyoftheateraffectsu
2、semotionally,subliminally,andintellectuallyinadirectwaythatfewotherartformscanduplicate.TheateroftheHolocaustcanpayhomagetothevictims,educateaudiences,induceanempatheticresponsefromtheaudience,raisemoralandethicalquestionsfordiscussion/debate,anddrawlessonsfromhistory.Includingthoroughcriticalanal
3、ysesofmorethanthirtyplays,thisbookexplorestheseminaltwentieth-centuryHolocaustdramasfromtheUnitedStates,Europe,andIsrael.Biographicalinformationabouttheplaywrights,productionhistoriesoftheplays,andpertinenthistoricalinformationareprovided,placingtheplaysintheirhistoricalandculturalcontexts.GeneA.P
4、lunkaisProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofMemphis,whereheteachescoursesonmodernandcontemporarydrama.HisbooksonthemoderntheaterincludePeterShaffer:Roles,Rites,andRitualsintheTheater(1988);TheRitesofPassageofJeanGenet:TheArtandAestheticsofRisk-Taking(1992);AntoninArtaudandtheModernTheater(ed.,1994);
5、Jean-ClaudevanItallieandtheOff-BroadwayTheater(1999);TheBlackComedyofJohnGuare(2002);andThePlaysofBethHenley:ACriticalStudy(2005).cambridgestudiesinmoderntheatreSerieseditorDavidBradby,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondonAdvisoryboardMartinBanham,UniversityofLeedsJackyBratton,RoyalHolloway,Universityo
6、fLondonTracyDavis,NorthwesternUniversitySirRichardEyreMichaelRobinson,UniversityofEastAngliaSheilaStowell,UniversityofBirminghamVolumesforCambridgeStudiesinModernTheatreexplorethepolitical,socialandculturalfunctionsoftheatrewhilealsopayingcarefulattentiontodetailedperformanceanalysis.Thefocusofthe
7、seriesisonpoliticalapproachestothemoderntheatrewithattentionalsobeingpaidtotheatresofearlierperiodsandtheirinfluenceoncontemporarydrama.Topicsintheseriesarechosentoinvestigatethisrelationshipandincludebothplaywri
