The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Grene, Nicholas; Morash, Chris

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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, and 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 contributors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191016349
• Artikelnr.: 45523130

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published extensively on a range of topics, including Irish theatre, Shakespeare, Yeats, Shaw and Indian literature in English. His impact on Irish theatre research extends back to Synge: A Critical Study of the Plays (1975); his study of modern Irish theatre, The Politics of Irish Drama (1999) has been highly influential, and his most recent book is Home on the Stage (2014). He is a founding director of both the Synge Summer School and the Irish Theatre Diaspora Project. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Chris Morash is Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin; he was previously Professor of English in Maynooth University. Born in Canada, he has published widely on Irish literature and cultural history, including Writing the Irish Famine (1996), A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (2002), A History of the Media in Ireland (2009), and Mapping Irish Theatre (with Shaun Richards, 2013). His History of Irish Theatre won the Theatre Book Prize in 2003, and is widely regarded as the standard history in the field. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Nineteenth-Century Legacies
* 1: Stephen Watt: The Inheritance of Melodrama
* 2: Michael McAteer: Oscar Wilde: International Politics and the Drama
of Sacrifice
* Part II: Theatre and Nation
* 3: Ben Levitas: The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre
* 4: P.J. Mathews: Theatre and Activism 1900-1916
* 5: Terence Brown: W.B. Yeats and Rituals of Performance
* 6: Mary Burke: The Riot of Spring: Synge's 'Failed Realism' and the
Peasant Drama
* Part III: Models and Influences
* 7: Shaun Richards: 'We Were Very Young and We Shrank From Nothing':
Realism and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
* 8: Richard Cave: Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940
* 9: Brad Kent: Missing Links: Bernard Shaw and the Discussion Play
* Part IV: Revolution and Beyond
* 10: Nicholas Allen: Imagining the Rising
* 11: Lauren Arrington: The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State
* 12: Christopher Murray: O'Casey and the City
* Part V: Performance 1
* 13: Paige Reynolds: Design and Direction To 1960
* 14: Eibhear Walshe: The Importance of Staging Oscar: Wilde At the
Gate
* 15: Adrian Frazier: Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century
* Part VI: Contesting Voices
* 16: Brian Ó Conchubhair: Twisting in the Wind: Irish-Language Stage
Theatre 1884-2014
* 17: Cathy Leeney: Women and Irish Theatre Before 1960
* 18: Lionel Pilkington: The Little Theatres of the 1950s
* Part VII: The New Revival
* 19: Lisa Coen: Urban and Rural Theatre Cultures: M.J. Molloy, John B.
Keane, and Hugh Leonard
* 20: Anthony Roche: Brian Friel and Tom Murphy: Forms of Exile
* 21: José Lanters: Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre
* Part VIII: Diversification
* 22: Marilynn Richtarik: Brian Friel and Field Day
* 23: Mark Phelan: From Troubles to Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern
Ireland
* 24: Victor Merriman: 'As We Must': Growth and Diversification in
Ireland's Theatre Culture 1977-2000.
* 25: Shelley Troupe: From Druid/Murphy To DruidMurphy
* Part IX: Performance 2
* 26: Chris Morash: Places of Performance
* 27: Ian R. Walsh: Directors and Designers since 1960
* 28: Nicholas Grene: Defining Performers and Performances
* 29: Julie Bates: Beckett at the Gate
* Part X: Contemporary Irish Theatre
* 30: Helen Heusner Lojek: Negotiating Differences in the Plays of
Frank McGuinness
* 31: Emilie Pine: Drama Since the 1990s: Memory, Story, Exile
* 32: Clare Wallace: Irish Drama Since the 1990s: Disruptions
* 33: Melissa Sihra: Shadow and Substance: Women, Feminism, and Irish
Theatre After 1980
* 34: Brian Singleton: Irish Theatre Devised
* Part XI: Ireland and the World
* 35: Rónán McDonald: Global Beckett
* 36: John P. Harrington: Irish Theatre and the United States
* 37: James Moran: Irish Theatre in Britain
* 38: Ond%rej Pilný: Irish Theatre in Europe
* 39: Patrick Lonergan: 'Feast and Celebration': The Theatre Festival
and Modern Irish Theatre
* 40: Christina Hunt Mahony: Reinscribing the Classics, Ancient and
Modern: The Sharp Diagonal of Adaptation
* Part XII: Critical Responses
* 41: Eamonn Jordan: Irish Theatre and Historiography