Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 287 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511999567
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
The 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
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
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Plays of (ever) changing Ireland
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Late nineteenth-century Irish theatre: before the Abbey -- and beyond
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The ideology of the Abbey Theatre
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The theatre of William Butler Yeats
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Lady Gregory's Abbey Theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal
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J.M. Synge, 'national' drama and the post-Protestant imagination
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On the siting of doors and windows: aesthetics, ideology and Irish stage design
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Oscar Wilde and the politics of style
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George Bernard Shaw and Ireland
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Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy: disillusionment to delusion
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Ireland's 'exiled' women playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr
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Samuel Beckett and the countertradition
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Brian Friel's sense of place
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The Field Day Theatre Company
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Tom Murphy and the children of loss
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Reconstructing history in the Irish history play
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The Abbey Theatre and the Irish state
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Staging contemporary Ireland: heartsickness and hopes deferred
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The revival revised
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521804004
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521008730
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521804004
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521804000
