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If you want to get deeper into Sarah Kane's work, here are further resources including dissertations and articles available on-line.

 

  Absolute Kane: On-line theses

 

click for link An Ethics of Catastrophe by Ken Urban.

An 11 page analysis of Kane's work.  Urban is good at describing the theatre world of the time.  He gives good insights into the plays.
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The Notion of Cruelty in the Work of Sarah Kane by Gaëlle Ranc

A full length dissertation on Sarah Kane's work.
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Sarah Kane: Dramaturgie de la Violence by Emilie Gouband

A full length dissertation on Sarah Kane's work.  In French.
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Click for link Decoding Sarah Kane
Dimensions of Metaphoricity in Cleansed by Timo Pfaff

An in-depth look at Cleansed: "Grace dresses in her dead brother’s clothes after which she breaks down. This may be a hint that she relived the pains her brother went through. To share pain with another person is an expression of ultimate closeness" (6 pages).
 

click for document A Controlled Detonation:
The Protean Voice of 4:48 Psychosis (first seven fragments)
by Mustafa Sakarya

Focussing on the play’s literary qualities and strategies as they are written down in order to demonstrate how Kane invented her own unique narrative consciousness, a dynamic protean voice that pushes theatrical boundaries to their limit in order to represent the brutality of severe depression, medication, psychosis, death and love (7 pages).
 

  Other on-line theses and contributions are welcome, in any language.
   

Absolute Kane: In-depth analysis in print

 

Graham Saunders book Love me or kill me gives good coverage of the plays, and has interviews with Kane directors and actors.

Aleks Sierzīs book In-Yer-Face has a good chapter on Sarah Kane, as well as extensive coverage of in-yer-face theatre.

Both books are excellent and are highly recommended.
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Aleks Sierzīs site gives a good overview of "in yer face" playwrights like Kane www.inyerface-theatre.com

Caryl Churchill is like Kane highly experimental. Top Girls is well worth searching out and reading and seeing. And she is still producing beautiful work, such as her recent work Far Away. Caryl Churchill admired Kane's work, and Sarah Kane admired Churchill's work.

Harold Pinter is the most respected living playwright in Britain. And he went out his way to support Sarah Kane both personally and publicly. Mountain Language shows his commitment to human rights with a compassion as great as Kane's.

 


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