The Politics of Irish Drama

Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

By:

Nicholas Grene

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

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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 a new view of the phenomenon of Irish drama itself.

Release date Australia

January 27th, 2000

Author

Nicholas Grene

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

332

Series

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780521665360

Product ID

1979265

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