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Author | : Hélène Lecossois |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108862497 |
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Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices – from keening at rural funerals to the performances of 'native villagers' in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time.
Author | : Shaun Richards |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000631273 |
Download Fifty Key Irish Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault’s entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and, alert to the cultural and critical context of each play, an account of the key roles that they played in the developing story of Irish drama. While the core of the collection is based on the critical canon, including work by J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Teresa Deevy, and Brian Friel, plays such as Tom Mac Intyre’s The Great Hunger and ANU Productions’ Laundry, which illuminate routes away from the mainstream, are also included. With a focus on the development of form as well as theme, the collection guides the reader to an informed overview of Irish theatre via succinct and insightful essays by an international team of academics. This invaluable collection will be of particular interest to undergraduate students of theatre and performance studies and to lay readers looking to expand their appreciation of Irish drama.
Author | : P. J. Mathews |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2009-11-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521110106 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduces students to the work of one of Ireland's most important playwrights.
Author | : Shaun Richards |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-01-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521008730 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Olga Taxidou |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2007-11-06 |
Genre | : Art |
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Download Modernism and Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The idea of performance as distinct artistic practice emerges in the context of modernity. This guide to modernism and performance introduces key developments and debates of the period (the rise of the director, new theories of acting, new modes of production, complex relationships to classical and oriental drama); debates that helped to create new languages of performance. It suggests that our understanding of the workings of performance in the period might help to reconfigure our general understanding of modernism.
Author | : James Moran |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2023-02-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350139793 |
Download Modern Tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), which shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama. Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Señora Carrar's Rifles, and situates Brecht's script in the light of the theatre practitioner's broader ideas about tragedy. Brecht's tragic thinking – informed by Hegel and Marx – is contrasted with the Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. Looking at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961), Modern Tragedy explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of authors and audiences of colour.
Author | : Alexandra Poulain |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-01-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1349949639 |
Download Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, as well as of less well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Seán O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of “blood sacrifice” and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name of modernity.
Author | : Seán Hewitt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0198862091 |
Download J. M. Synge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, more combative modernism.
Author | : Marchella Ward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009372777 |
Download Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the role that spectators play in the reception and perpetuation of ableist stereotypes about blindness in the theatre.
Author | : Mary P. Caulfield |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-12-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137362189 |
Download Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes.