4 Stories in Conflict and Competition: Alternative Histories, Complementary Tales, and Lies in Early Modern Drama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents IX
4. Prologue XV
5. Part I: Towards a Transgeneric and Contextual Theory of Narrative in Drama, Or, Reframing ‘Drama’ as a Narrative Genre
6. 1 ‘Enter Drama!’ Putting the Genre (Back) Centre Stage in the Study of Literature and Culture 1
7. 2 Rising Action: Towards a Narratology of Drama 35
8. 3 Suggestions for a Peripeteia in Drama and Narrative Theory: A Culturally Sensitive Narratology of Drama and Dramatic Narration 57
9. Part II: The History of Narrative and Narration in British Drama – The Cultural Dynamics and Performative Power of Dramatic Storytelling
10. 4 Stories in Conflict and Competition: Alternative Histories, Complementary Tales, and Lies in Early Modern Drama 97
11. 5 The Containment of Different Narratives and of Narratives of Difference in Drama: The Renewal and Self-Definition of a ‘Sleeping’ Genre as well as Theatrical Configurations of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century (Drama) Cultures 148
12. 6 From Stage to Page, from the Publicly Politic to the Metaphysically Private: Late Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Drama as a Genre in Transformation, Dramatising Diegetic Storytelling and Narrativising (Revolutionary) Change in Society and Conflict in Selves 199
13. 7 Expanding the Allowances of Drama by Generic Encounters with Narrative in Victorian and Early-Twentieth-Century Plays: Intersecting Drama and Narrative as Means to Fight against Hypocritical Hegemonies as well as to Perform and Forestall Political Change 254
14. 8 From Stories in Drama to the Drama of (Performed) Stories: Late-Twentieth and Early-Twenty-First-Century Dissolutions of Established Generic Traditions and Cultural Histories as Well as the Generation of New, ‘Ex-centric’ Genres and Histories through Narrative 304
15. 9 Conclusion: ‘The Contextual Dynamics of Dramatic Storytelling’ and the ‘Performative Power of Narrative in British Plays’ 358
16. References 379
17. Index 415