Download or read book Cruel Britannia written by Jolene Armstrong and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane's Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1999), written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», movement, examining Kane's plays through an optic of trauma theory, and linking trauma to postmodern experience as defined by war, inter-personal violence, repetitive memory, and sex as medium of violence.