David Hare’s Proposal of an Alternative Religion to Object to the Commercial Religion of Thatcherism
British political drama of the 1980s was heavily under the influence of Margaret Thatcher’s government and its policies which were introduced to the economy and which diffused into every domain of public life. Political dramatists could not respond immediately to the abrupt changes that occu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Turkish |
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Selçuk University
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://sefad.selcuk.edu.tr/index.php/sefad/article/view/1525/1145 |
| Summary: | British political drama of the 1980s was heavily under the influence of
Margaret Thatcher’s government and its policies which were
introduced to the economy and which diffused into every domain of
public life. Political dramatists could not respond immediately to the
abrupt changes that occured in social and political life at the beginning
of the decade. They got prolific only in the second half of the decade and
dared to display the influence of Thatcher’s government not only on the
state institutions but also on the private lives of the people. One of the
foregoing political dramatists, David Hare, in the 1980s, looked back on
his dramaturgy and revised it in tune with the requirements of this new
decade. As a result, in The Secret Rapture, staged in 1988, Hare dwells
upon the state politics as insinuated into people’s private lives rather
than directly criticise it. Moreover, Hare contrasts, in the play, the
dominant values of the present decade, in social and private terms, with
those embraced in the previous decade. Then, he creates a new moralreligious alternative by the help of the protagonist Isobel in clash with
the economical-religious attitude endorsed by Thatcher’s Britain.
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| ISSN: | 1300-4921 2458-908X |