The Professions in Contemporary Drama

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has largely ignored them. The Professions in Contemporary Drama fills this space with chapters discussing University teachers, the medical profession, clerics, artists, and the professions in general as they are depicted on stage.

The individual contributors are addressing a range of specific issues, including:
• the cultural and historical contexts of writing process
• aspects of genre - such as comedy and tragedy
• expected ‘professional behaviour’
• the tension between the individual and the ‘institutional representative’
• the ‘ethical’ dimension to the professional’s work.

Keywords: Drama, plays