AQA (B) Literature: ‘Dramatic genres: comedy’
Afew minutes into Act 1 we realise that this play is set in a very modern world. Jerusalem (2009) opens with Phaedra’s recitation of Blake’s nineteenth-century poem ‘Jerusalem’, but this is quickly interrupted by the ‘deafening bass’ pumping from speakers on the top of Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron’s mobile home. Next morning, we see Johnny threatened with eviction by two council officials clad in reflective jackets and armed with staple gun and digital video camera. When his friend Ginger complains that he wasn’t told about the party the night before, the dialogue is unmistakably modern:
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