Riot and great anger : stage censorship in twentieth-century Ireland / Joan FitzPatrick Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick, 1949-

Series:

Irish studies in literature and culture.

Irish studies in literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Censorship--Ireland--History--20th century.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although books, films, and periodicals were subject to Irish government censorship through much of the twentieth century, stage productions were not. The theater became a public space to air cultural confrontations between Church and State, individual and community, and "freedom of the theatre" versus the audience's right to disagree. And disagree they often did. Throughout the twentieth century, Irish performances of new plays by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Sean O'Casey, as well as those of such lesser-known playwrights as George Birmingham, often evoked heated responses from theatergoers, sometimes resulting in riots and public denunciation of playwrights and actors.

Contents:

Theatrical censorship and disorder in Ireland

Theatre, art, and censorship

The evil genius

The boom of the ban

The riot in Westport; or George A. Birmingham at home

The freedom of the theatre in the Irish Free State, 1922-1929

Irish stage censorship from Salome through Roly Poly

The fifties

New theatrical economies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.

ISBN:

9786612502910

9781282502918

1282502913

9780299196639

0299196631

OCLC:

647891262