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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521008735

ISBN-139780521008730

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Number of Pages308 Pages

Publication NameCambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDrama, Europe / Ireland, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

AuthorShaun Richards

SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-041541

Reviews"[An] impressive, extensive, and significant collection of nineteen essays regarding the whole range of Irish drama from the past century." Text & Presentation, Kelly Younger, Loyola Marymount University, 'Extensive in its breadth and including studies of the major playwrights and their most important works, this book offers an excellent introduction to a major dramatic and theatrical tradition.' Reference Reviews, "The excellent essays in this volume cover topics ranging from the birth of 'the literary theatre' in 1899 to a contemporary version of the Irish 'literary revival.' Highly recommended." D. Seelow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, CHOICE

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal822/.91099417

Table Of ContentNotes on contributors; Chronology; 1. Plays of (ever) changing Ireland Shaun Richards; 2. Late nineteenth-century Irish theatre: before the Abbey - and beyond Stephen Watt; 3. The ideology of the Abbey theatre Adrian Frazier; 4. The theatre of William Butler Yeats Joep Leerssen; 5. Lady Gregory's Abbey theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal James Pethica; 6. J. M. Synge, 'national' drama and the post-Protestant imagination Mary C. King; 7. On the siting of doors and windows: aesthetics, ideology and Irish stage design Richard Allen Cave; 8. Oscar Wilde and the politics of style Neil Sammells; 9. George Bernard Shaw and Ireland Gearóid O'Flaherty; 10. Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy: disillusionment to delusion Ronan McDonald; 11. Ireland's 'exiled' woman playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr Cathy Leeney; 12. Samuel Beckett and the counter-tradition John P. Harrington; 13. Brian Friel's sense of place Helen Lojek; 14. The Field Day Theatre Company Marilynn Richtarik; 15. Tom Murphy and the children of loss Nicholas Grene; 16. Reconstructing history in the Irish history play Claire Gleitman; 17. The Abbey theatre and the Irish state Lionel Pilkington; 18. Staging contemporary Ireland: heartsickness and hopes deferred Vic Merriman; 19. The revival revised Brian Singleton; Guide to further reading; Index.

SynopsisThe essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contemporary playwrights Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Frank McGuiness and Sebastian Barry, in addition to emerging playwrights such as Martin McDonagh and Marina Carr. Further to studies of individual playwrights the collection also includes examination of the relationship between the theatre and its political context as this is inflected through its ideology, staging and programming. With a full chronology and bibliography, this collection is an indispensable introduction to one of the world's most vibrant theatre cultures., The essays in this collection cover the entire range of Irish drama, from the late nineteenth-century melodramas (anticipating the rise of the Abbey Theatre) to the contemporary Dublin of theater festivals. In addition to studies of individual playwrights, the collection includes an examination of the relationship between the theater and its political context as reflected through its ideology, staging and programming. Including a complete chronology and bibliography, this collection will be an important introduction to one of the world's most vibrant theater cultures., The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. With a full chronology and bibliography, this collection is an indispensable introduction to one of the world's most vibrant theatre cultures.

LC Classification NumberPR8789.C28 2003