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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing the study of Irish theatre since the late nineteenth century.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Nineteenth-Century Legacies
- 1: Stephen Watt: The Inheritance of Melodrama
- 2: Michael McAteer: Oscar Wilde: International Politics and the Drama of Sacrifice
- Part II: Theatre and Nation
- 3: Ben Levitas: The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre
- 4: P.J. Mathews: Theatre and Activism 1900-1916
- 5: Terence Brown: W.B. Yeats and Rituals of Performance
- 6: Mary Burke: The Riot of Spring: Synge's 'Failed Realism' and the Peasant Drama
- Part III: Models and Influences
- 7: Shaun Richards: 'We Were Very Young and We Shrank From Nothing': Realism and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
- 8: Richard Cave: Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940
- 9: Brad Kent: Missing Links: Bernard Shaw and the Discussion Play
- Part IV: Revolution and Beyond
- 10: Nicholas Allen: Imagining the Rising
- 11: Lauren Arrington: The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State
- 12: Christopher Murray: O'Casey and the City
- Part V: Performance 1
- 13: Paige Reynolds: Design and Direction To 1960
- 14: Eibhear Walshe: The Importance of Staging Oscar: Wilde At the Gate
- 15: Adrian Frazier: Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century
- Part VI: Contesting Voices
- 16: Brian Ó Conchubhair: Twisting in the Wind: Irish-Language Stage Theatre 1884-2014
- 17: Cathy Leeney: Women and Irish Theatre Before 1960
- 18: Lionel Pilkington: The Little Theatres of the 1950s
- Part VII: The New Revival
- 19: Lisa Coen: Urban and Rural Theatre Cultures: M.J. Molloy, John B. Keane, and Hugh Leonard
- 20: Anthony Roche: Brian Friel and Tom Murphy: Forms of Exile
- 21: José Lanters: Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre
- Part VIII: Diversification
- 22: Marilynn Richtarik: Brian Friel and Field Day
- 23: Mark Phelan: From Troubles to Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern Ireland
- 24: Victor Merriman: 'As We Must': Growth and Diversification in Ireland's Theatre Culture 1977-2000.
- 25: Shelley Troupe: From Druid/Murphy To DruidMurphy
- Part IX: Performance 2
- 26: Chris Morash: Places of Performance
- 27: Ian R. Walsh: Directors and Designers since 1960
- 28: Nicholas Grene: Defining Performers and Performances
- 29: Julie Bates: Beckett at the Gate
- Part X: Contemporary Irish Theatre
- 30: Helen Heusner Lojek: Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
- 31: Emilie Pine: Drama Since the 1990s: Memory, Story, Exile
- 32: Clare Wallace: Irish Drama Since the 1990s: Disruptions
- 33: Melissa Sihra: Shadow and Substance: Women, Feminism, and Irish Theatre After 1980
- 34: Brian Singleton: Irish Theatre Devised
- Part XI: Ireland and the World
- 35: Rónán McDonald: Global Beckett
- 36: John P. Harrington: Irish Theatre and the United States
- 37: James Moran: Irish Theatre in Britain
- 38: Ond%rej Pilný: Irish Theatre in Europe
- 39: Patrick Lonergan: 'Feast and Celebration': The Theatre Festival and Modern Irish Theatre
- 40: Christina Hunt Mahony: Reinscribing the Classics, Ancient and Modern: The Sharp Diagonal of Adaptation
- Part XII: Critical Responses
- 41: Eamonn Jordan: Irish Theatre and Historiography
About the author
Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published extensively on a range of topics, including Irish theatre, Shakespeare, Yeats, Shaw and Indian literature in English. His impact on Irish theatre research extends back to Synge: A Critical Study of the Plays (1975); his study of modern Irish theatre, The Politics of Irish Drama (1999) has been highly influential, and his most recent book is Home on the Stage (2014). He is a founding director of both the Synge Summer School and the Irish Theatre Diaspora Project. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Chris Morash is Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin; he was previously Professor of English in Maynooth University. Born in Canada, he has published widely on Irish literature and cultural history, including Writing the Irish Famine (1996), A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (2002), A History of the Media in Ireland (2009), and Mapping Irish Theatre (with Shaun Richards, 2013). His History of Irish Theatre won the Theatre Book Prize in 2003, and is widely regarded as the standard history in the field. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing the study of Irish theatre since the late nineteenth century.
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covers an enormous amount of theatrical territory ... [which] should enrich our understanding and appreciation of the subject. Theatre in Ireland is well served by this imposing volume.
