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Selected Plays of M.J. Molloy

Author : Michael Joseph Molloy
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813209340
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of M.J. Molloy written by Michael Joseph Molloy and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Joseph Molloy (1917-1994) was born and died in Milltown, Co. Galway. He originally intended to join the priesthood but was struck down by tuberculosis. It was during the long periods he spent in the hospital that he started writing plays, having been inspired by a childhood visit to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. His first play, Old Road, was produced at the Abbey in 1943, as were The Visiting House in 1946 and The King of Friday's Men in 1948. When the old theatre burned down and the company moved to the Queen's Theatre, his The Wood of the Whispering and The Paddy Pedlar were produced there, followed by The Will and the Way, The Right Rose Tree, and The Wooing of Duvesa. After the company's return to the rebuilt theatre in 1966 his plays -- with their romantic plots and Syngean dialogue -- did not find favor with the new Abbey, and, with the exception of Petticoat Loose in 1979, none of his later works were performed professionally. This selection contains The King of Friday's Men, The Paddy Pedlar,,The Wood of the Whispering, Daughter from Over the Water, Petticoat Loose, and the previously unpublished The Bachelor's Daughter. The volume includes a bibliographical checklist of Molloy's writings.

Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949

Author : P. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230583857
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 written by P. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949.

Selected Plays of Rutherford Mayne

Author : Rutherford Mayne
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813209791
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of Rutherford Mayne written by Rutherford Mayne and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel J. Waddell (1878-1967), who took on the stage-name Rutherford Mayne when he embarked on a theatrical career, was the most prolific, versatile, and successful playwright that the Irish Literary Revival in Ulster brought forth. In the course of his career as a dramatist, from 1906 to 1934, he wrote thirteen plays -- ten plays for the Ulster Literary Theatre, one for the Dublin-based Theatre of Ireland, and two for the Abbey Theatre. Especially his early realist Ulster peasant plays were very successful, among them The Drone (1908), the most popular Irish folk comedy of the first half of the twentieth century. He also acted a great number of main parts in plays of his own and of other writers, to great acclaim, mainly in Belfast and Dublin but also on tours to England and Scotland, from 1904 until late in his life. His plays disappeared from the stage in the 1950s, and, when he died, his artistic achievements were almost forgotten. Wolfgang Zach's introduction to this volume is the first attempt to give a lengthy survey of Mayne's life and works, with particular emphasis on a discussion of all his plays, their critical reception, stage history, and specific features. As to the selection of Rutherford Mayne's plays contained in this volume, seven of his eight published plays -- his most important ones -- have been included in this edition. Two important prose pieces (one of Mayne's essays and an interview), have been added to his reprinted plays as they provide direct insight into his personality, views, and career. In the biographical and critical section of the Checklist appended to this book, publications have also been included that do not solely concentrate on RutherfordMayne but are of great significance to any student of his life and plays.

Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault

Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813206172
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault written by Dion Boucicault and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of Boucicault's work in this volume stresses his consummate craft as a writer for the theatre in the age of actor-managers and melodrama. It also reminds us of that Irish verve, charm and adroitness which made him the best playwright of his generation in England and America as well as Ireland. Arguably the father of both the Irish and American drama, his characteristic plotting and taste for sensation suggest that another of his heirs was the early movie industry.

Selected Plays of Micheál Mac Liammóir

Author : Micheál Mac Liammóir
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813208893
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Selected Plays of Micheál Mac Liammóir written by Micheál Mac Liammóir and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Micheál mac Liammóir is best known as an actor and, with Hilton Edwards, founder of Dublin's Gate Theatre, he was also an artist and stage and costume designer of great talent and an accomplished playwright. The present selection contains five of his plays as well as some of his writings 'On Plays and Players,' and a bibliographical checklist. Contents: Where Stars Walk, Ill Met by Moonlight, The Mountains Look Different, The Liar, and Prelude in Kazbek Street

Modern Irish Theatre

Author : Mary Trotter
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745633420
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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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.

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470751479
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by : Shaun Richards

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: Publisher Description

Fifty Key Irish Plays

Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000631273
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Key Irish Plays written by Shaun Richards and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and, alert to the cultural and critical context of each play, an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of the collection is based on the critical canon, including work by J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Teresa Deevy, and Brian Friel, plays such as Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger and ANU Productions’ Laundry, which illuminate routes away from the mainstream, are also included. With a focus on the development of form as well as theme, the collection guides the reader to an informed overview of Irish theatre via succinct and insightful essays by an international team of academics. This invaluable collection will be of particular interest to undergraduate students of theatre and performance studies and to lay readers looking to expand their appreciation of Irish drama.

Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland

Author : Lionel Pilkington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134914652
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland written by Lionel Pilkington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on: *the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; *the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; *the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, T. C. Murray, George Shiels, Brian Friel, and Frank McGuinness. In its insistence on the details of history, this is a book important to anyone interested in Irish culture and politics in the twentieth century.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191016349
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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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.

Mapping Irish Theatre

Author : Chris Morash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039428
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Irish Theatre written by Chris Morash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

Buffoonery in Irish Drama

Author : Kathleen Heininge
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105463
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Buffoonery in Irish Drama written by Kathleen Heininge and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of the stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory, Buffoonery in Irish Drama demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to create a sense of identity in a colonial structure, and it explores the distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further calls to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of the reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of twentieth-century drama that brings us into a globalized twenty-first-century Ireland.

The Best Are Leaving

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048400
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Best Are Leaving written by Clair Wills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.

Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980: Volume 5

Author : Eve Patten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570747
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980: Volume 5 written by Eve Patten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive to changes in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O'Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien, and John McGahern.

The Theatre of Marina Carr

Author : Cathy Leeney
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780953425778
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Marina Carr written by Cathy Leeney and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first collection of articles to be published on the theatre of Marina Carr, a major contemporary Irish playwright whose work is highly acclaimed in Ireland and internationally for its poetic energy and its remarkable theatrical imagination." "These essays examine Carr's highly original voice, and place her plays in the context of current theatre in Ireland and abroad. They raise lively debate on contemporary representation of 'Irishness' on the stage, on the current state of Irish theatre, on the impact of female authorship on the canon of Irish theatre, and on Carr's portrayal of characters who are fundamentally at odds with the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.

The Blessed and the Damned

Author : Anne O'Connor
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105410
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Blessed and the Damned written by Anne O'Connor and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish folklore of the Otherworld is rich in its many manifestations of supernatural beings and personages. This is represented in many different genres of folklore, such as folktales, legends, ballads, memorates, beliefs and belief statements, and exists within the context of rich literary, historical and imaginative parallels. This book presents a new reading of Irish religious belief and legend in a meaningful socio-historical context, examining popular belief and narratives of sinful women and unbaptised children, as a way of understanding a particular worldview in Irish society. Blending postmodern approaches with traditional methodologies, the author reviews the representation of women, sin and repentance in Irish folklore. The author suggests new ways of seeing this legend material, indicating strong links between the Irish and the French, specifically Breton, religious tradition, and tracing the nature of this inter-relationship through the post-Tridentine Counter Reformation Roman Catholic Church and its teachings. In this way aspects of Ireland's popular religious and cultural inheritance are examined.