Cruel Britannia

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.