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Title The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre / edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 764 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Beckett At the Gate / Julie Bates -- Defining Performers and Performances / Nicholas Grene -- Directors and Designers Since 1960 / Ian Walsh -- Design and Direction To 1960 / Paige Reynolds -- From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy / Shelley Troupe -- 'Feast and Celebration' / Patrick Lonergan -- Brian Friel and Field Day / Marilynn Richtarik -- Global Beckett / Rónán McDonald -- Imagining the Rising / Nicholas Allen -- Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century / Adrian Frazier -- Drama since the 1990s / Emilie Pine -- Irish Drama since the 1990s / Clare Wallace -- Irish Theatre in Britain / James Moran -- Irish Theatre in Europe / Ondřej Pilný -- Irish Theatre and the United States / John Harrington -- Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre / José Lanters -- Theatre and Activism 1900-1916 / P.J. Mathews -- The Little Theatres of the 1950s / Lionel Pilkington -- Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940 / Richard Cave -- Brian Friel and Tom Murphy / Anthony Roche -- Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness / Helen Heusner Lojek -- 'As We Must' / Victor Merriman -- From Troubles To Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern Ireland / Mark Phelan -- O'Casey and the City / Christopher Murray -- Places of Performance / Chris Morash -- Irish Theatre Devised / Brian Singleton -- 'We Were Very Young and We Shrank From Nothing' / Shaun Richards -- Missing Links / Brad Kent -- The Riot of Spring / Mary Burke -- The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre / Ben Levitas -- The Inheritance of Melodrama / Stephen Watt -- The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State / Lauren Arrington -- Irish Theatre and Historiography / Eamonn Jordan -- Twisting in the Wind / Brian O'Conchubhair -- Reinscribing the Classics, Ancient and Modern / Christina Hunt Mahony -- Urban and Rural Theatre Cultures / Lisa Coen -- The Importance of Staging Oscar / Eibhear Walshe -- Oscar Wilde / Michael McAteer -- Women and Irish Theatre Before 1960 / Cathy Leeney -- Shadow and Substance / Melissa Sihra -- W.B. Yeats and Rituals of Performance / Terence Brown
pt. 1: Nineteenth-century legacies -- pt. 2: Theatre and nation -- pt. 3: Models and influences -- pt. 4: Revolution and beyond -- pt. 5: Performance 1 -- pt. 6: Contesting voices -- pt. 7: The new revival -- pt. 8: Diversification -- pt. 9: Performance 2 -- pt. 10: Contemporary Irish theatre -- pt. 11: Ireland and the world -- pt. 12: Critical responses
Summary Drawing on more than 40 contributors from around the world, this volume addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late 19th-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre
The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre' provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Print version record
Subject Irish drama -- History and criticism
English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Theater -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Theater -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century
Actresses -- Ireland
English drama -- Irish authors
Irish drama
Theater
Actresses
Ireland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Grene, Nicholas, editor.
Morash, Chris, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9780191819926
0191819921
Other Titles Handbook of modern Irish theatre
Modern Irish theatre
Oxford handbook of modern Irish theater