TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grene,Nicholas
TI  - The politics of Irish drama: plays in context from Boucicault to Friel 
T2  - Cambridge studies in modern theatre
SN  - 051100947X
AV  - PR8795.P64 G74 1999eb
U1  - 822.009/358 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Boucicault, Dion,
KW  - Friel, Brian
KW  - Friel, Brian.
KW  - English drama
KW  - Irish authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political plays, English
KW  - Theater
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Théâtre anglais
KW  - Auteurs irlandais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - Irlande
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Théâtre politique anglais
KW  - Théâtre
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Politik
KW  - Motiv
KW  - gnd
KW  - Drama
KW  - Toneelstukken
KW  - gtt
KW  - Politieke aspecten
KW  - Literatura irlandesa (história e crítica)
KW  - larpcal
KW  - ram
KW  - Théâtre irlandais de langue anglaise
KW  - Irland
KW  - Englisch
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index; 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
N2  - 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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