Based on essays originally presented at a symposium entitled "Nationalism and a national theatre: 100 years of Irish drama" convened at Indiana University, May 26-29, 1999.
This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition.
Velma O'Donoghue Greene Winds of change currently reconfiguring academic perceptions of global history are blowing through the fields of Irish drama and literature. Publications such as Ireland's National Theaters: Political Performance ...
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This is one of the most thorough one volume discussions of the greatest century of Irish dramatic creativity and influence. "...I am impressed with the critical writing in Ronald Rollins's RUIN, RITUAL AND REMBRANCE.
The Irish Literary Theatre : 1899-1901 . Dublin : The Dolmen Press , 1975 . The Modern Irish Drama : Laying the Foundations : 1902-1904 . Dublin : The Dolmen Press , 1976 . Hogan , Robert and Richard Burnham and Daniel P. Poteet .
Parker, Patricia. 'Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V.' British Identities and ... Patterson, Annabel. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Payne, Robert. A Brife Description of Ireland.
Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
This book includes information on the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres.
... Dublin in 1904. The simple addition of the fact that the boy is shoeless undercuts the humor of the scene and ... Lamplight are spoken in character, while the exposition in The Whiteheaded Boy comes as stage directions, and the actors ...
This book delves into how playwrights, whether canonical or less frequently discussed in the academic sphere, have critically and creatively engaged with the Anglo-Irish War, the Irish Civil War, the Easter Rising, the Northern Ireland ...