Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART I: MAKING IT NEW


• 1: Changing generations, changing styles: Irish theatre in the 1990s


• 2: Belated avant-garde


• 3: Re-imagining Synge


• State of play 1: 2006


• PART II: PAST AND PRESENT


• 4: Live history


• 5: After the Troubles


• 6: Strategies of adaptation


• State of play 2: 2016


• PART III: THE POLITICS OF GENDER


• 7: Waking the feminists: women's voices


• 8: Masculinity and its discontents


• 9: Women writing women


• State of play 3: 2020-2


• Conclusion

About the author

Nicholas Grene, with a doctorate from Cambridge, taught at the University of Liverpool, before being appointed at Trinity College Dublin where he held the Professorship of English Literature (1867) from 1999 to his retirement in 2015. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he has published widely on drama and on Irish literature; his books include The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (2002), Yeats's Poetic Codes (2009), and Farming in Modern Irish Literature (2021). He has been an invited lecturer in many countries and a visiting professor at Dartmouth and the Sorbonne.

Summary

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Grene
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9780198893073
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889307-3
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights