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Irish theater in America : essays on Irish theatrical diaspora /

"For more than 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences. However, Irish theater as represented on the American stage is merely a sampling of the national drama, and the underlying causes of Irish dramatic success in America illumin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrington, John P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Harrigan, Hart, and Braham: Irish America and the birth of the American musical / Mick Moloney
  • From scapegrace to grásta: popular attitudes and stereotypes in Irish American drama / Maureen Murphy
  • Ireland rearranged: contemporary Irish drama and the Irish American stage / Christopher L. Berchild
  • Between two worlds: Boucicault's The shaughraun and its New York audience / Deirdre McFeely
  • Reporting the stage Irishman: Dion Boucicault in the Irish press / Gwen Orel
  • Kilkenny, Melbourne, New York: George Tallis and the Irish theatrical diaspora / Peter Kuch
  • The abbey, its "helpers," and the field of cultural production in 1913 / Lucy McDiarmid
  • Mac Liammóir's The importance of being Oscar in America / Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
  • Beckett and America / John P. Harrington
  • Another look at those "three bollocks in a cell": Someone who'll watch over me and the shackles of history / Claire Gleitman
  • Faith healer in New York and Dublin / Nicholas Grene
  • "Dancing on a one-way street": Irish reactions to Dancing at Lughnasa in New York / Patrick Lonergan
  • "The Irish play": beyond the generic? / Christina Hunt Mahony.