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A century of Irish drama : widening the stage / edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Drama and performance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism--Congresses.
- English drama.
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Theater--Ireland--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Theater.
- Politics and literature--Ireland--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Politics and literature.
- Nationalism and literature--Ireland--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Nationalism and literature.
- History.
- English drama--Irish authors.
- Ireland--In literature--Congresses.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 332 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- The founding years and the Irish national theatre that was not / John P. Harrington
- The alternative aesthetic: the theatre of Ireland's urban plays / Nelson Ó Ceallaigh Ritschel
- Of orangemen and green theatres: the Ulster literary theatre's regional nationalism / Laura E. Lyons
- The Abbey and the theatrics of controversy, 1909-1915 / Lucy McDiarmid
- More than a morbid, unhealthy mind: public health and the playboy riots / Susan Cannon Harris
- Saying "no" to politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy / Shakir Mustafa
- O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in context / Christopher Murray
- Love and death: a reconsideration of Behan and Genet / Stephen Wayatt
- Playing outside with Samuel Beckett / Judith Roof
- Translating women into Irish theatre history / Mary Trotter
- "I've never been just me": rethinking women's positions in the plays of Christina Reid / Carla J. McDonough
- Neither here nor there: the liminal position of Teresa Deevy and her female characters / Christie Fox
- Playwrights of the Western world: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh / José Lanters
- The Passion Machine theatre company's everyday life / Lauren Onkey
- The book at the center of the stage: Friel's making history and The Field Day anthology of Irish writing / Kathleen Hohenleitner
- "Ireland, the continuous past": Steward Parker's Belfast history plays / Marilynn Richatarik
- Frank McGuinness and the ruins of Irish history / James Hurt
- The end of history: the millennial urge in the plays of Sebastian Barry / Scott T. Cummings.
- Notes:
- Based on essays originally presented at a symposium entitled "Nationalism and a National Theatre: 100 Years of Irish Drama" convened at Indiana University, May 26-30, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253338123
- 025321419X
- OCLC:
- 44172830
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