This master thesis deals with one of the current trends in contemporary British drama – the so-called „climate change plays“.
In the first part of this thesis my aim is to briefly introduce the history and context of climate change debate from the 1970s to the present day and explain how environmental problems started to arise in different art spheres, above all in Anglophone literature. In the second part the focus is on the climate change plays that emerged in English speaking countries in the past 15 years. The core of this thesis are analyses of four plays premiered in major London theatres between 2009 – 2011: The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters, The Heretic by Richard Bean, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London and Lungs by Duncan Macmillan. The main objective of these analyses is their approach towards climate change science and their shared ideologies, motives and themes.
The last chapter attempts to evaluate this social phenomenon and to consider the difficulties artists have to face when dealing with such complex scientific problems like climate change.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:369375 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Holá, Kateřina |
| Contributors | JOBERTOVÁ, Daniela, KYSELOVÁ, Eva |
| Publisher | Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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