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The politics of Irish drama : plays in context from Boucicault to Friel /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 051100947X 9780511009471 051103329X 9780511033292 0511150474 9780511150470 0511117906 9780511117909 9780521665360 0521665361 9780521660518 0521660513 9780511486029 0511486022 |