A century of Irish drama : widening the stage

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A century of Irish drama : widening the stage

edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa

（Drama and performance studies）

Indiana University Press, c2000

  • : pbk

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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

Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780253214195

内容説明

This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies-Timothy Wiles, general editor

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Preliminary Table of Contents: A Century of Irish Drama Widening the Stage Edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa Foreword by Shivaun O'Casey Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre /Eileen Morgan Part One: Challenging the Received View of Early Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre 1. The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not /John P. Harrington 2. The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays /Nelson O Ceallaigh Ritschel 3. Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism /Laura E. Lyons Part Two: Theorizing and Historicizing Theatre Controversies 4. The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915 /Lucy McDiarmid 5. More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots /Susan Cannon Harris 6. Saying "No" to Politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy /Shakir Mustafa Part Three: Reconstructing Drama During the "Fatal Fifties" 7. O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context /Christopher Murray 8. Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet /Stephen Watt 9. Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett /Judith Roof Part Four: Contemporary Theatre Projects and Revivals 10. Translating Women into Irish Theatre History /Mary Trotter 11. "I've Never Been Just Me": Re-Thinking Women's Positions in Christina Reid's Plays /Carla J. McDonough 12. Neither Here Nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters /Christie Fox 13. Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh /Jose Lanters 14. The Passion Theatre Company's Everyday Life /Lauren Onkey Part Five: Irish History on the Contemporary Stage 15. The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing /Kathleen Hohenleitner 16. "Ireland, the Continuous Past": Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays /Marilynn Richtarik 17. Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of History /James Hurt 18. The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry /Scott T. Cummings Bibliography Contributors Index
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ISBN 9780253338129

内容説明

This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies-Timothy Wiles, general editor

目次

Preliminary Table of Contents: A Century of Irish Drama Widening the Stage Edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa Foreword by Shivaun O'Casey Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre /Eileen Morgan Part One: Challenging the Received View of Early Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre 1. The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not /John P. Harrington 2. The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays /Nelson O Ceallaigh Ritschel 3. Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism /Laura E. Lyons Part Two: Theorizing and Historicizing Theatre Controversies 4. The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915 /Lucy McDiarmid 5. More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots /Susan Cannon Harris 6. Saying "No" to Politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy /Shakir Mustafa Part Three: Reconstructing Drama During the "Fatal Fifties" 7. O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context /Christopher Murray 8. Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet /Stephen Watt 9. Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett /Judith Roof Part Four: Contemporary Theatre Projects and Revivals 10. Translating Women into Irish Theatre History /Mary Trotter 11. "I've Never Been Just Me": Re-Thinking Women's Positions in Christina Reid's Plays /Carla J. McDonough 12. Neither Here Nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters /Christie Fox 13. Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh /Jose Lanters 14. The Passion Theatre Company's Everyday Life /Lauren Onkey Part Five: Irish History on the Contemporary Stage 15. The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing /Kathleen Hohenleitner 16. "Ireland, the Continuous Past": Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays /Marilynn Richtarik 17. Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of History /James Hurt 18. The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry /Scott T. Cummings Bibliography Contributors Index

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