{"product_id":"animal-presence-in-contemporary-british-theatre","title":"Animal Presence in Contemporary British Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive study of the presence of animals in contemporary British  drama and theatre and their thought-provoking intersections with the human characters and actors with  whom they have increasingly come to share the stage. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy have animals become so ubiquitous on the contemporary stage? What are theatre-makers trying to  achieve by increasingly peopling their landscapes with nonhuman figures and, indeed, actors? Taking stock  of the expanding presence, role and agency of animals in British theatre and drama over recent decades,  this book investigates the payoffs – conceptual, cognitive, aesthetic, and political – of an art practice that  purposefully relocates the animal within a culturally powerful anthropocentric stronghold. In their  simultaneous engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, the plays  considered in this volume provide a larger framework for thinking humanity beyond the human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503686492533,"sku":"9781350503144","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350503144.jpg?v=1787039978","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/animal-presence-in-contemporary-british-theatre","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}