Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle

Klappentext A theoretical and historical study of the audiences for early twentieth-century Irish culture. Zusammenfassung Employing previously unexamined archival material! this book reconstructs five events staged in Ireland between 1907 and 1926! including the riotous premiere of The Playboy of the Western World. Reynolds provides attentive readings of plays familiar to the history of Irish theatre as well as less familiar Irish and international plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The audiences for Irish modernism; 2. Audience allegory: the premiere of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World; 3. Sub-national sentiment: Dublin Suffrage Week and the uses of Ibsen; 4. Modernist martyrdom: scripting the death of Terence MacSwiney; 5. Fictions in the Free State: the 1924 Tailteann Games; 6. The irreducible audience: Irish modernism and The Plough and the Stars riots; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Paige Reynolds, Paige (College of the Holy Cross Reynolds
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521182393
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18239-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet