Social and Historical Context of Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth)
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- Created on: 08-01-22 12:54
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- Social/ historical context of Jerusalem
- Instability
- High concern over youth disobedience
- Use of chav and ASBO in news
- Caused by gangs but also aimed at young people meeting in public spaces
- Jerusalem shows behaviours people were worried about
- Characters rely on flexlible/ unstable job market
- They take alcohol, cannabis and ecstasy
- 2009 = 1/8 people out of work etc, 15% on benefits and 2 million ecstasy pills taken a week
- They take alcohol, cannabis and ecstasy
- High concern over youth disobedience
- Clashes with traveller community
- Johnny's situation matches that of a traveller
- His relationship/treatment from the local village
- Butterworth reflects tension between travellers and settled communities at this time
- Often under threat of eviction
- Dale Farm 2011
- His relationship/treatment from the local village
- 2005- John Prescott's initiative to consider the needs of travellers when allocating planning permission = backlash
- Sun newspaper 'Stamp on the Camps'
- Johnny's situation matches that of a traveller
- Illegal raves
- Johnny's parties = reminiscent of UK rave culture
- After govt crackdown on illegal parties (late 80s) people started meeting in large countryside spaces
- Raves became hugely popular, attendances as high as 25k
- Legis. brought in to curb events, outlawing raves over 100
- Raves became hugely popular, attendances as high as 25k
- Folk traditions
- Play references= jerusalem, Morning song and Day song
- Critics related Johnny to Robin Hood, Peter Pan, the Green Man etc
- May Day tradition runs through Jerusalem
- Flintock Fair, Welsey in the morris dancing troupe
- Johnny's drum references Jack and the Beanstalk, Francis Drake
- Gentrification
- References to the village becoming posher
- Johnny's eviction connected to new nice housing estate
- Parallels gentrification, pushing out original residents through urban development
- Johnny's eviction connected to new nice housing estate
- References to the village becoming posher
- Instability
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