Irish theatre in transition : from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century /: from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donald E. Morse.
• Editors: Morse, Donald E, 1936-
• Contents: Introduction: The Irish Theater in Transition; Donald E Morse -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND REFOUNDATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1. The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years 1897-1997; Christopher Murray -- PART II: ENGAGING WITH A CHANGING REALITY -- 2. Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson's The Night Alive; Eamonn Jordan -- 3. Queer Creatures, Queer Places: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama from Synge to Friel; Jose Lanters -- 4. Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily's Duck and O Go My Man; Mria Kurdi -- 5. 'The Politics of Aging': Frank McGuinness's The Hanging Gardens; Donald E Morse -- PART III: ENHANCED THEATRICALITY -- 6. The Play within the Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays; Csilla Bertha -- 7. When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Irish Stage Worlds; Eric Weitz -- 8. Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in Mark O'Rowe's Terminus; Ondrej Pilny -- PART IV: REFRAIMING TRANSITION -- 9. Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985; Patrick Lonergan -- 10. Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge; Nicholas Grene -- 11. The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present; Peter James Harris -- PART V: INVENTIVENESS AND EXPANDING THE STAGE -- 12. The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness; Helen Heuser Lojek -- 13. Pat Kinevane's Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject; Joan FitzPatrick Dean -- 14. Writing for 'the real national theatre' Stewart Parker's Plays for Television; Clare Wallace -- 15. Playing with Minds: Beckett on Film; Dawn Duncan -- PART VI: ON THE RE-FOUNDATION OF THE IRISH THEATRE -- 16. Sam Shepard, Irish Playwright; Stephen Watt.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822/.91099417; English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Theater -- Ireland -- History; English drama; English drama -- Irish authors; Theater; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Performing Arts -- General; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Art -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Theatre studies; The arts: general issues; Performing arts; Theater; Arts; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Ireland; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137450692
• Related ISBNs: 113745069X; 9781349497058; 1349497053
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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