The Falklands War and the British Stage

• Authors: Adrian Radu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the way the Falklands War of 1982 was reflected in the creation of British playwrights. Officially, the war was seen as a heroic act, as another glorious page in the book of British history. But for many writers it contained nothing heroic; it was just noisy brandishing of weapons and useless loss of human lives.

Keywords

EN

Britain; Argentina; Falklands; Margaret Thatcher; Belgrano; British army; military life and mind; war drama; heroism; trauma

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 112-119

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Adrian Radu

• Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

References

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• Young Hugo.1991. One of Us. London: Macmillan.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0014