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Author : Desmond Ernest Stewart Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A critical history of modern Irish drama, 1891-1980 written by Desmond Ernest Stewart Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. E. S. Maxwell
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521295390
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 written by D. E. S. Maxwell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-11-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical history of Irish drama from the founding of the Irish Literary Theatre to the nineteen-eighties.
Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119000
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author : Cóilín Owens
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813207056
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama, 1900-1980 written by Cóilín Owens and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This superb collection of eighteen plays has long been needed. It provides a sound and solid introduction to the rich field of modern Irish drama, and should be as delightful to the private reader as it will be useful for university classes."--Journal of Irish Literature Contents: Spreading the News and The Gaol Gate-- Lady Gregory; On Baile's Strand and the Only Jealousy of Emer--W.B. Yeats; The Land--Padraic Colum; The Playboy of the Western World--J.M. Synge; Maurice Harr--T. C. Murray; The Magic Glasses--George Fitzmaurice; Juno and the Paycock- -Sean O'Casey; The Big House--Lennox Robinson; The Old Lady Says "No "--Denis Johnston; As the Crow Flies--Austin Clarke; The Paddy Pedlar--M. J. Malloy; The Vision of Mac Conglinne--Padraic Fallon; The Quare Fellow--Brendan Behan; All that Fall--Samuel Becket; Da--Hugh Leonard; Translations--Brian Friel
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470751479
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author : Alexander G. Gonzalez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507735
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Writers written by Alexander G. Gonzalez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-08-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Irish Literary Revival began around 1885 and ended somewhere between 1925 and 1940, the Irish Renaissance has continued to the present day and shows no sign of abating. The period has produced some of the most important and influential figures in Irish literature, some of whom are counted among the world's greatest authors. The Revival saw a reestablishment of Ireland's literary connections with its Celtic heritage, and writers such as William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory drew heavily on the myths and legends of the past. James Joyce boldly reshaped the novel and wrote short fiction of enduring value. Contemporary Irish writers continue to be leading figures and include such authors as Brian Frigl, Seamus Heaney, and Eavan Boland. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers, including Samuel Beckett, William Trevor, Patrick Kavanagh, Medbh McGuckian, Sean O'Casey, J. M. Synge, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Entries are written by expert contributors and reflect a broad range of perspectives. Each entry contains a brief biography that summarizes the author's career, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. An introductory essay reviews the large and growing body of scholarship on modern Irish literature, while an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191016349
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre written by Nicholas Grene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.
Author : Peter Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136118047
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Peter Nagy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.
Author : J. R. Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199592829
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book A New History of Ireland Volume VII written by J. R. Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history: the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic.
Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745633420
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Theatre written by Mary Trotter and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre’s political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.
Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826581
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Shaun Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408113465
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights written by Martin Middeke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and insightful study of the work of twenty-five important Irish playwrights.
Author : Norman Vance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870492
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Irish Literature Since 1800 written by Norman Vance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present.
Author : Barry Houlihan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030745481
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Theatre and Archival Memory written by Barry Houlihan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new insights into the production and reception of Irish drama, its internationalisation and political influences, within a pivotal period of Irish cultural and social change. From the 1950s onwards, Irish theatre engaged audiences within new theatrical forms at venues from the Pike Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, and the Gate Theatre, as well as at Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey. Drawing on newly released and digitised archival records, this book argues for an inclusive historiography reflective of the formative impacts upon modern Irish theatre as recorded within marginalised performance histories. This study examines these works' experimental dramaturgical impacts in terms of production, reception, and archival legacies. The book, framed by the device of ‘archival memory’, serves as a means for scholars and theatre-makers to inter-contextualise existing historiography and to challenge canon formation. It also presents a new social history of Irish theatre told from the fringes of history and reanimated through archival memory.
Author : Cheryl Herr
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815624813
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (248 download)
Download or read book For the Land They Loved written by Cheryl Herr and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by the Enlightenment's model of revolutionary cultural change, the hopeful Irish rose against British rule in the famous rebellion of 1798. The British responded quickly and violently to suppress it, and for generations after, Irish school children knew intimately the stories of patriotism, terror, and betrayal that came out of the '98 Rising. The enactment of these stories, through a series of extremely popular political melodramas, reinforced that learning and was fundamental to the evolving sense of Irish nationhood. For the Land They Loved makes available in print for the first time the complete texts of four of the most ideologically complex and theatrically effective of the many "lost" Irish melodramas produced at the popular Queen's Theatre in Dublin during the late nineteenth and earl twentieth centuries. This edition, complete with period illustrations of playbills, pictorial ads, and portraits, includes a detailed critical and historical essay that weaves the separate narratives of the plays into a sustained story of Irish sociopolitical life in the revolutionary 1790s. All four plays focus on the '98 Rising. J. W. Whitbread's Lord Edward, Or '98 (1894) and Wolfe Tone (1898) dramatize the consequences of heroism from the aristocratic and United Irish point of view, while P. J. Bourke's When Wexford Rose (1910) and For the Land She Loved (1915) engage resistance from working-class and feminist-nationalist perspectives. Such plays, shown constantly in Irish cities and small towns as well as overseas, were to become part of the social dialogue that produced another rising in 1916 and beyond. For scholars and students of Irish history and culture, and for anyone interested in understanding the consciousness behind modern Irish resistance, For the Land They Loved will prove to be essential reading.
Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
Author : Scott Boltwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308749
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Brian Friel written by Scott Boltwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of all the plays and major stories authored by Brian Friel. Scott Boltwood introduces readers to the key themes that have been used to characterise Friel's entire career, moving chronologically from his early work as a successful short story writer to the present day. This is an essential text for dedicated modules or courses on Modern or Contemporary British and Irish drama offered as part of English literature degrees, or for the literature and culture modules of undergraduate and postgraduate Irish studies degrees. In addition, this book is an ideal companion for A-level students reading Friel's plays, or anyone with an interest in this complex writer's career.
