Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation
- ISBN-10
- 0815606435
- ISBN-13
- 9780815606437
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-01
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Author
- Christopher Murray
Description
This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
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- 1997
- 278 pages
- Paperback
- Manchester University Press
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