The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel
The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel
The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

by Nicholas Grene
The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

by Nicholas Grene

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The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521660518
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/27/2000
Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile: 1470L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Stage interpreters; 2. Strangers in the house; 3. Shifts in perspective; 4. Class and space in O'Casey; 5. Reactions to revolution; 6. Living on; 7. Versions of pastoral; 8. Murphy's Ireland; 9. Imagining the other; Conclusion: a world elsewhere; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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