- Title
- “You base football player” (King Lear 1.5.91): the rise and significance of the soccer play as index of identity
- Creator
- Bennett, John
- Relation
- Popular Entertainment Studies Vol. 4, Issue 2, p. 74-91
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This article presents an analytical overview of the British and Irish soccer play since 1914. It demonstrates a rise in the incidence of such work in the twenty-first century and suggests reasons for this significant increase. A five part taxonomy is posited, examining the varied roles of person, team, specific game, fictional game and the didactic. A triptych of identity as defined by region, nation and representations of maleness is suggested, and these are shown to be vital tropes of such work. In addition, a consideration of the efficacy of this work as popular theatre is offered, as is the soccer play as a possible vehicle for increasing live theatre attendance in non-metropolitan theatres. John Bennett is Principal Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Liverpool Hope University.
- Subject
- audience; Peter Boyden; football; masculine identity; localism; John McGrath; nationalism; Popular Entertainment Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1448185
- Identifier
- uon:43336
- Identifier
- ISSN:1837-9303
- Rights
- © 2013 The Author
- Language
- eng
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