The politics of Irish drama : plays in context from Boucicault to Friel / Nicholas Grene.

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Grene, Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in modern theatrePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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051100947X
9780511009471
051103329X
9780511033292
0511150474
9780511150470
0511117906
9780511117909
9780521665360
0521665361
9780521660518
0521660513
9780511486029
0511486022

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of Irish drama.DDC classification:

822.009/358 21

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PR8795.P64 G74 1999eb

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18.05

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index.

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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.

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