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Author : Valerie Barth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
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:
Author : Amina ElHalawani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040002536
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism written by Amina ElHalawani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage for the reader to discover the revolutionary traditions of Egyptian and Irish theatre, very distinct in their histories and cultures, and understand their enduring relevance in today’s world. The volume takes Ireland as a case study of the interplay between cultural nationalism and politically engaged theatre and compares it to the role of the theatre in Egypt during its Golden era in the 1960s. Through a selection of Egyptian plays by Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mikhail Roman, Yusuf Idris, and Salah Abdul-Saboor, alongside Irish plays by Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Reid, and Samuel Beckett, it maps the political aesthetics of unsteady times and seemingly disparate places to reflect on the dynamics of revolt as a staged act in and of itself. Further, the book examines how playwrights from both nations have engaged with theatre as a medium, focusing on how their contemplations, hesitations, frustrations, and protest have been translated onto the stage in their various plays, and comprehends the transformative role the theatre has always played in politics in shaping history across time and space. Bridging together discussions on transnational modernisms with nuanced cultural histories of protest, this critical work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary studies, identity politics, cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, and political studies.
Author : Susan Cannon Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474424481
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions written by Susan Cannon Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.
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 : Mary Trotter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745654479
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Theatre written by Mary Trotter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 244 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 : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651309
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty modern Irish playwrights are discussed along with summaries of their major plays and recommendations for further reading.
Author : Susan Cannon Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474424473
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions written by Susan Cannon Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.
Author : Alexandra Poulain
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349949639
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play written by Alexandra Poulain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, as well as of less well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Seán O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of “blood sacrifice” and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name of modernity.
Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214195
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)
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
Author : Matthias Schollmeyer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640196937
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Brian Friel's 'Translations'. Irish Drama and literature in transition: a new conscience of Irish culture and identity at the end of the 20th century written by Matthias Schollmeyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien), Veranstaltung: Literature - Contemporary Irish Drama, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie im vergangenen Literatur-Hauptseminar zur Umwandlung, Geschichte und Reformation der irischen Dramen deutlich wurde, hat es gerade im Verlauf der letzten Jahrzehnte eine Revolution im Denken und Wirken irischer Theater-Autoren (und dementsprechend in der Popularität ihrer Stücke) gegeben, die diese in noch stärkerem Maße mit einer eigenen irischen Identität ausstatteten und in ihrer Vielfalt sowie der Symbolhaftigkeit eine neue, modernere Epoche des irischen Dramas geprägt haben. Von besonderer Signifikanz war diese Entwicklung insbesondere deshalb, da dies auch in engem Zusammenhang mit Irlands Kolonisationshintergrund, seiner Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen und dem Wunsch vieler Iren nach kultureller Eigenständigkeit, innenpolitischer Unruhen, aber auch dem wirtschaftlichem Ab - und Wiederaufstieg begründet liegt und erklärt werden muss. Denn dies ist es letztlich, was das irische Theater ausmacht - die Frage bzw. Hinterfragung irischer Identität und ihre Verarbeitung in der Dramenkultur Irlands: "Ever since Lord Mountjoy and Neale Moore watched Goroduc in Dublin Castle in the months before the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, Irish audience have brought into the theatre a concern with what it means to be Irish (or to be in Ireland, which is not necessarily the same thing)." Doch gerade rückblickend auf die Theatergeschichte der vergangenen Jahrhunderte galt es für die Autoren der Dramen den Spagat zwischen den vorherrschenden Definitionen irischer Kultur, der Geschichte Irlands und der eigenen kreativen Freiheit zu finden, was sich nicht immer einfach gestaltete. Dies lässt sich in erster Linie durch eine fehlende Dramen- und Theaterkultur erklären, die erst durch die britische Kolonisation Einzug in die Kultur Irlands
Author : Shaun Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 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: Publisher Description
Author : Matthias Schollmeyer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640196848
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Brian Friel’s “Translations”. Irish Drama and literature in transition: a new conscience of Irish culture and identity at the end of the 20th century written by Matthias Schollmeyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien), Veranstaltung: Literature – Contemporary Irish Drama, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie im vergangenen Literatur-Hauptseminar zur Umwandlung, Geschichte und Reformation der irischen Dramen deutlich wurde, hat es gerade im Verlauf der letzten Jahrzehnte eine Revolution im Denken und Wirken irischer Theater-Autoren (und dementsprechend in der Popularität ihrer Stücke) gegeben, die diese in noch stärkerem Maße mit einer eigenen irischen Identität ausstatteten und in ihrer Vielfalt sowie der Symbolhaftigkeit eine neue, modernere Epoche des irischen Dramas geprägt haben. Von besonderer Signifikanz war diese Entwicklung insbesondere deshalb, da dies auch in engem Zusammenhang mit Irlands Kolonisationshintergrund, seiner Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen und dem Wunsch vieler Iren nach kultureller Eigenständigkeit, innenpolitischer Unruhen, aber auch dem wirtschaftlichem Ab - und Wiederaufstieg begründet liegt und erklärt werden muss. Denn dies ist es letztlich, was das irische Theater ausmacht – die Frage bzw. Hinterfragung irischer Identität und ihre Verarbeitung in der Dramenkultur Irlands: „Ever since Lord Mountjoy and Neale Moore watched Goroduc in Dublin Castle in the months before the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, Irish audience have brought into the theatre a concern with what it means to be Irish (or to be in Ireland, which is not necessarily the same thing).“ Doch gerade rückblickend auf die Theatergeschichte der vergangenen Jahrhunderte galt es für die Autoren der Dramen den Spagat zwischen den vorherrschenden Definitionen irischer Kultur, der Geschichte Irlands und der eigenen kreativen Freiheit zu finden, was sich nicht immer einfach gestaltete. Dies lässt sich in erster Linie durch eine fehlende Dramen- und Theaterkultur erklären, die erst durch die britische Kolonisation Einzug in die Kultur Irlands hielt. Es gab zwar bereits zu Beginn des Mittelalters vielschichtige Formen von öffentlichen Darbietungen, die zumeist die Rezitation von Geschichten und Gedichten umfassten, aber Theater in seiner Definition als religiös, gesellschaftskritisch, politisch oder auch nur ästhetisch ambitionierte Szenendarstellung und künstliche Kommunikationsform zwischen Darstellern und Publikum war dies nicht.
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture.
Author : John P. Harrington
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393960631
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish Drama written by John P. Harrington and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twelve plays by Irish authors W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel, accompanied by nearly fifty background and criticism texts on the works presented.
Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521660513
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
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.
Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408132680
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: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349016276
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama 1899–1970 written by E.H. Mikhail and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
