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National Identity in Irish Drama. A Study of Selected Plays by Yeats, Synge and O'Casey

Author : Youssef Al-Youssef
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 365691012X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book National Identity in Irish Drama. A Study of Selected Plays by Yeats, Synge and O'Casey written by Youssef Al-Youssef and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This book comes as a continuation to the previous book with the same title, but this time, with ten plays and a broader discussion of the previously discussed ones. In this book, many specialised people have worked hard in order to answer the ongoing debates in the literary field. It deals with the most abstract idea in the Irish Theater: Nation Identity. It studies ten plays by three dramatisits and gives insight for analysing other plays. The presented plays are as following: - The Countess Cathleen - Cathleen Ni Houlihan - Purgatory - Riders to the Sea - The Playboy of the Western World - The Well of the Saints - Juno and the Paycock - The Plough and the Stars - The Shadow of Gunman - The Silver Tassie

National identity in the dramatic works of Yeats, Synge and O'Casey

Author : Inken Schulze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638681300
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book National identity in the dramatic works of Yeats, Synge and O'Casey written by Inken Schulze and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,85, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar/Abteilung für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften der Terchnischen Universität Braunschweig), language: English, abstract: “There is no great literature without nationality, no great nationality without literature” (John O’Leary) Although the high age of imperialism is thought to have started in the late 1870s, this does not hold true for English-speaking areas. Ireland, having been colonised by the English well over seven hundred years before, is an exception as England's oldest colony. In the course of time, all native features of the Irish, above all their Celtic history, had to give way to the colonisers' equivalents. It was not until the nineteenth century that the Irish developed a new national consciousness. It eventually enabled them to lay claim to their native history, religion and language as well as their national identity embodied in all of these aspects. In this respect, the Irish Literary Revival is particularly decisive since its writers dedicated themselves to a new way of dramatic expression. This thesis focuses on the three key writers of the literary movement William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), John Millington Synge (1871-1909) and Sean O’Casey (1880-1964). While concentrating on a revival of the Irish past, each spreading their own version of Irishness throughout the theatres, they helped Irish literature to become Irish, to become national again.

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

Author : George Cusack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135855978
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama written by George Cusack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these three authors in the years leading up to Ireland’s revolution against England. Furthermore, by focusing on plays written by each author in the context of the ongoing debates over Irish national identity that were taking place throughout Irish public life in this period, Cusack examines in more depth than previous studies the ways Yeats, Gregory, and Synge adapted conventional dramatic and linguistic forms to accommodate the conflicting claims of Irish nationalism. In so doing, he demonstrates the contribution these authors made not only to the development of Irish nationalism but also to modern and postcolonial literature as we understand them today.

Irish Identity and the Literary Revival

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000884775
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Irish Identity and the Literary Revival written by George Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, J. M. Synge, and Sean O’Casey, documents the complex spectrum of political, social and other pressures that helped fashion modern Ireland. At least three sets of cultural assumptions coexisted in Ireland during the years between 1890 and 1930, -- English, Irish and Anglo-Irish, each united by a common language but divided by considerable tensions and strain. The question of Irish identity forms the central theme of the study, and illustrates how it was a major, even obsessive concern for these writers. Subsidiary and interwoven themes constantly recur. Themes such as the concepts of the peasant and the hero, political nationalism, the meaning of Ireland’s history and the validity of her cultural traditions. Rather than use the literature concerned as merely endorsing evidence for a sociological or political thesis, this study allows its major themes and issues to emerge and develop from direct and close study of the work of the writers. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.

Irish Identity and the Literary Revival

Author : George J. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Irish Identity and the Literary Revival written by George J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by critics as ""indispensable"" and ""splendidly readable,"" Irish Identity and the Literary Revival illuminates the art of four of Ireland's greatest writers through a detailed examination of their works in the context of a single main theme: each writer's attempt to grapple with, or define, the nature or meaning of Irish cultural and political identity. This vexed question of identity is an obsessive concern for each of the four, permeating the content, form, and style of their major works. Rather than use the literature reductively, G. J. Watson allows his major theme to emerge and develop from direct and close engagement with the writers' texts, which are examined in detailed, full-length essays. This book has been much used by undergraduate and postgraduate students, yet with its jargon- free style it also appeals to the general, educated reader. It will be enjoyed by all those with an interest in Irish literature and culture, and especially by those with a particular interest in Synge, Yeats, Joyce, or O'Casey. G. J. Watson is a senior lecturer in the department of English at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Drama: An Introduction (Macmillan, 1984) and the editor of W. B. Yeats: The Fiction, forthcoming from Penguin Books. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ""G. J. Watson has written a book which is at once a work of consummate scholarship and an act of personal testimony. . . . [It] is an exciting and deeply moving book, which will be studied with profit not only by literary critics, historians, and sociologists, but also, one hopes, by many ordinary readers. . . . As a work of criticism, this study is outstanding in its sensitivity to the nuances of a text, in its breadth of learning, and in its lucidity of style. . . . Irish Identity and the Literary Revival takes its place on the shelf as an indispensable study of the literature of the Irish crisis.""--Declan Kiberd, Review of English Studies ""Every chapter is illuminating. . . . A splendidly readable book, widely informed, alert, even witty, in the midst of its scrupulous marshalling of evidence.""--Brian Cosgrove, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science/I>

A Century of Irish Drama

Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214195
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Irish Drama written by Stephen Watt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett

Author : Katharine Worth
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472510844
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett written by Katharine Worth and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights – Wilde and Synge, O'Casey and Beckett – who share in the achievement of creating a modern 'drama of the interior'. Professor Worth traces in particular the influence of Maeterlinck, examining his 'static drama' in some detail. A dominant theme is the importance of total theatre techniques to the playwrights of the interior from Wilde in Salomé to O'Casey in plays like Cock-a-Doodle Dandy. Yeats is seen as the great pioneer, assimilating inspiration from the French, with Arthur Symons as guide, from Synge, from Gordon Craig and from the No drama, and evolving a modern technique for a drama of complex self-consciousness.

The Politics of Irish Drama

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521660513
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Irish Drama written by Nicholas Grene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Nicholas Grene explores political contexts for some of the outstanding Irish plays from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. The politics of Irish drama have previously been considered primarily the politics of national self-expression. Here it is argued that Irish plays, in their self-conscious representation of the otherness of Ireland, are outwardly directed towards audiences both at home and abroad. The political dynamics of such relations between plays and audiences is the book's multiple subject: the stage interpretation of Ireland from The Shaughraun to Translations; the contentious stage images of Yeats, Gregory and Synge; reactions to revolution from O'Casey to Behan; the post-colonial worlds of Purgatory and All that Fall; the imagined Irelands of Friel and Murphy, McGuinness and Barry. With its fundamental reconception of the politics of Irish drama, this book represents an alternative view of the phenomenon of Irish drama itself.

Twentieth-century Irish Drama

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719041570
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray provides an overview of a nation's theatre read in the light of a nation's self-definition. Mediating between history and its troubled relation with politics and art, he shows the preoccupations of Irish drama.

The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays

Author : Lady Gregory
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays written by Lady Gregory and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of theater with 'The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays', a collection of three compelling plays. Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats join forces to deliver a thought-provoking exploration of religion, politics, and sacrifice in 'The Unicorn from the Stars'. Witness the powerful political allegory of 'Cathleen Ni Houlihan' and 'The Hourglass', where Ireland herself beckons for unwavering dedication and martyrdom. With each play, these acclaimed authors transport readers into captivating realms where the echoes of history and the complexities of human nature intertwine on the stage.

Ruin, Ritual and Remembrance in Twentieth Century Irish Drama

Author : Ronald Gene Rollins
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
ISBN 13 : 1930901267
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Ruin, Ritual and Remembrance in Twentieth Century Irish Drama written by Ronald Gene Rollins and published by Academica Press,LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the development of Irish drama in the 20th century and discusses recent cultural critiques of the entire enterprise of the Irish theatre. Rollins interprets Yeats, Synge, Beckett, Friel and McGuiness among others as practitioners in a kind of national reformulation of ritual and memory. This is one of the most thorough one volume discussions of the greatest century of Irish dramatic creativity and influence. "...I am impressed with the critical writing in Ronald Rollins's RUIN, RITUAL AND REMBRANCE. His scholarship focuses on Ireland's intricate history and Yeat's definition of maimed Irish space " great hatred, little room." Rollins deals with three playwrights, Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston and the contemporary Frank McGuiness and their response to the nationalist uprising of 1916. Rollins points up after artful consideration of the older dramatists, the special relevance of McGuiness' idea that the Ulster rebels of pre World War 1 are the same as the Dublin rebels of 1916, the flip side of the coin. These writer see each denomination in Ireland as ordinary, half inspired, half bigoted human beings curiously united in their defiant rhetoric. The central thrust of the study is a consideration of the nationalist poet/playwright and leader Patrick Pearse as a man lost in the labyrinth of revolutionary rhetoric; in Rollins approach to McGuiness' THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME, Rollins argues the proposition that the character Piper is a counter figure to Pearse, similarly involved in the ritual chants of war, youth and death. The difference is that the real life Pearse shot by the British survives as an icon of Irish republicanism while the fictional Piper lives to see the Protestant house of Ulster crumble. Rollin's work is full of insights like this. Buy the book." ---James Liddy " ...highly recommended." Professor Robert Mahony-Catholic University of America

Irish Plays and Playwrights

Author : Cornelius Weygandt
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Irish Plays and Playwrights written by Cornelius Weygandt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can guess from the title, the following book is about Irish playwrights famous in the late 19th and early 20th century and the works that contributed to their popularity. Individuals featured include William Butler Yeats, Isabella Augusta (Lady Gregory), and Edward Martyn.

Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama

Author : Ondrej Pilny
Publisher : Litteraria Pragensia
ISBN 13 : 9788073081263
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama written by Ondrej Pilny and published by Litteraria Pragensia. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective identity has been a dominant theme throughout the history of modern Irish drama, from the time of the Irish Literary Theatre up till the cultural changes that have resulted from the economic boom of the late 1990s. This book focuses on playwrights from W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge to Sean OCasey, Denis Johnston, Brian Friel, Stewart Parker and Martin McDonagh and discusses the variegated ironic interactions of their work with the discourse of Irishness, highlighting the difficulties entailed in essentialist definitions of identity, be they called nationalist, post-colonial or otherwise. At the same time, the book points out the sheer amount of theatrical and thematic innovation the ironic relationship with identity has brought about over the decades.

Tradition and Revolution in Modern Irish Drama

Author : Valerie Barth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Revolution in Modern Irish Drama written by Valerie Barth and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Since O'Casey" and Other Essays on Irish Drama

Author : Robert Hogan
Publisher : Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire : Colin Smythe ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book "Since O'Casey" and Other Essays on Irish Drama written by Robert Hogan and published by Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire : Colin Smythe ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes and Noble Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plays for an Irish Theatre

Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780469828230
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Plays for an Irish Theatre written by W. B. Yeats and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Shakespeare and Twentieth-century Irish Drama

Author : Rebecca Steinberger
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754637806
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Twentieth-century Irish Drama written by Rebecca Steinberger and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, Rebecca Steinberger examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays, grounded in history, nationalism, and imperialism, embody an empathy for the Irish other. Irish dramatists' appropriations of Shakespeare, Steinberger argues, were both a reaction to the language of domination and a means to support their revision of the Irish as Subject.