Author: Shaun RichardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008730
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
Author: Shaun RichardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008730
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A Century of Irish Drama
Author: Stephen WattPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253214195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor
The Aran Islands
Author: John Millington SyngePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aran Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement
Author: Francis BickleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Playboy of the Western World
Author: J. M. SyngePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Playboy of the Western World" (A Comedy in Three Acts) by J. M. Synge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Synge and Edwardian Ireland
Author: Brian CliffPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199609888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book uses J.M. Synge's plays, prose, and photography to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland. By emphasizing less familiar contexts, including the rise of a local celebrity culture, the arts and crafts movement, and Irish classical music, it shows how Irish folk culture intersected with the new networks of mass communication.
Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play
Author: Alexandra PoulainPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349949639
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, as well as of less well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Seán O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of “blood sacrifice” and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name of modernity.
The Well of the Saints
Author: John Millington SyngePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blindness
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge
Author: P. J. MathewsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521110106
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.
Riders to the Sea
Author: John Millington SyngePublisher: Copia Editions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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