The politics of Irish drama : plays in context from Boucicault to Friel / Nicholas Grene.
By: Grene, Nicholas.
Material type: BookSeries: Cambridge studies in modern theatre.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xvii, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521660513 ; 0521665361 .Subject(s): Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890 -- Political and social views | Friel, Brian -- Political and social views | English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Political plays, English -- History and criticism | Theater -- Political aspects -- IrelandDDC classification: 822.009358Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 822.009358 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00078023 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
Bibliography: (pages 290-300) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289).
Introduction -- Stage Interpreters -- Strangers in the house -- Shifts in perspective -- Class and space in O'Casey -- Reactions to revolution -- Living on -- Versions of pastoral -- Murphy's Ireland -- Imagining the other -- Conclusion: a world elsewhere.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Stage interpreters
- 2 Strangers in the house
- 3 Shifts in perspective
- 4 Class and space in O'Casey
- 5 Reactions to revolution
- 6 Living on
- 7 Versions of pastoral
- 8 Murphy's Ireland
- 9 Imagining the other
- Conclusion: a world elsewhere
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index