List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Verse Drama after the Lyric

Part I: Voice
1. The Chorus
2. Radio Drama
Part II: Words
3. Counted Meter
4. Language as Material
Part III: Time
5. Temporality
6. Anachronism
Conclusion: Verse Drama after the Internet

Notes
Bibliography
Index

"Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric compares contemporary plays with modernist ones that experiment with the tension between the lyric and the dramatic. Chapters trace a genealogy from contemporary plays by Joanna Laurens, Joyelle McSweeney, and David Grieg back to W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden to reveal that the tensions that animate verse drama have stayed the same, even as the strategies for staging them have evolved"--