The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Critical Companions)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408175282 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. Each of the major playwrights of the movement refashioned that agenda to suit their own very different dramaturgies.Roche explores Synge's experimentation in the creation of a new national drama and considers Lady Gregory not only as a co-founder and director of the Abbey Theatre but also as a significant playwright. Mathews and Conor McPherson who provide further critical perspectives on this period of radical change in modern Irish theatre.. From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role of Yeats as both founder and playwright, the one who set the agenda until his death in 1939. A chapter onShaw outlines his important intervention in the Revival. O'Casey's four ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, as does the new Irish modernism that follow
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.” - CHOICE . Shaffer, Rhodes College, English Literature in Transition“Roche (Univ. Mary’s University, UK, BREAC“Roche’s synthetic study close reads, contextualizes, and creatively juxtaposes individual plays of the Dramatic Revival in provocative ways that spark insights and make connections that reveal the dialogic natureyet also coherenceof the Irish dramatic canon … chapters of Roche’s book are filled with myriad illuminating observations on the plays and personalities o
Anthony Roche is Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College, Dublin, and has published widely on Irish drama and theatre from the late nineteenth century to the present. . He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (2006) and author of Contemporary I