4 “Why isn’t love enough?” Commitment in Patrick Marber’s Closer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Making of Romantic/Erotic Love: Traditions and Transformations
6. 2 Philosophy of Love: Selections 17
7. 3 Romantic Love in Sociology 65
8. Part II. Analysis: Love in Contemporary British Drama
9. 4 “Why isn’t love enough?” Commitment in Patrick Marber’s Closer 93
10. 5 “if you’re not with me I feel less like a person”: Sex, Drugs, and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking 124
11. 6 Autopsies of Love: Sarah Kane’s Erotic Plays 142
12. 7 “Not saying I don’t want things though”: Emotional and Material Desires in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money 183
13. 8 “Love at first sight and the lost city of Atlantis”: Penelope Skinner’s Eigengrau, Or ‘A Fairy Tale of Blind Love’ 203
14. 9 “We don’t need ties”: Rebellious Love in Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love 222
15. 10 “this poetical … shit”: Coming to Terms with Love in debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (‐noun) 243
16. 11 Coda 267
17. Works Cited 274
18. Index of subjects 286
19. Index of authors 293