WebbHistories of Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century for the most part have centred on the production and reception of play texts. Many of those histories have also contextualized the play texts of Ireland’s historical avant-garde (especially those premièred by the Abbey Theatre) as being synonymous with the political revolution that … WebbAbstract. Irish theatre since 1960 has been dominated by the work of major playwrights, above all Brian Friel and Tom Murphy. The changing social context of Ireland in the early …

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre - Paperback

WebbWriting in 1999, Nicholas Grene asserted that Irish theatre was ‘a distinct and distinctly marketable phenomenon’. 1 While this was and still remains a very apt comment as regards the UK, the US, and other areas of the Anglophone world which feature a significant Irish diaspora, evidence from Continental Europe shows that the situation there has been … WebbOxford Handbooks 719Index Note: The method of alphabetical ordering used is letter-by-letter; titles of plays are indexed under name of playwright; bibliographical references … cypress meadows ventura

The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre The Oxford Handbook of …

WebbThe 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 … WebbThe most important word in the title of this book is ‘theatre’. The familiar narrative in the field has most often been that of the Irish dramatic movement from the foundational work of W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge to contemporary figures such as Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, and Enda Walsh, sometimes including (although more often … WebbWomen’s contribution to Irish theatre continues often to be considered as a separate topic. Gender conservatism corrals women’s creative energies away from the mainstream: as the title of this chapter indicates, women are in relationship (‘and’) to Irish theatre which is thus naturalized as men’s, but recognizing women’s work also needs to happen, whatever the … binaryformatter c# list