The feast of famine : the plays of Frank McGuinness
著者
書誌事項
The feast of famine : the plays of Frank McGuinness
Peter Lang, c1997
- US : pbk.
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注記
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University College, Dublin
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is a critical evaluation of the Northern Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, best known for the plays "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" and "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me". Memory, history, myth, identity and performance are recurring themes in McGuinness's drama. His work is formally inventive, demanding, generous and aggressive in a way that makes his theatre a confrontational, salient and enlighted-ning experience. The title of this text "The Feast of Famine" captures the confluence of contradictory forces at play in McGuinness's work: the celebratory and communal notions of festivity and the destructive intensity of famine. This study places these dynamic energies within a carnivalesque consciousness which is transgressive and highly theatrical.
目次
- The early plays - discoveries
- "Observe the Sons of Ulster" - legacy and commemoration
- "Innocence" - the political imagination
- "Carthaginians" - memory recovered
- translations - other voices
- "Mary and Lizzie" - a lost history
- "The Bread Man" - isolation and desire
- "Someone who'll watch over me" - culture and fantasy.
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