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The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre / edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in literature.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish drama--History and criticism.
- Irish drama.
- English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--Irish authors.
- Theater--Ireland--History.
- Theater.
- Ireland.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Other Title:
- Handbook of modern Irish theatre
- Modern Irish theatre
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drawing on more than 40 contributors from around the world, this volume addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late 19th-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre.
- Contents:
- Beckett At the Gate / Julie Bates
- Defining Performers and Performances / Nicholas Grene
- Directors and Designers Since 1960 / Ian Walsh
- Design and Direction To 1960 / Paige Reynolds
- From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy / Shelley Troupe
- 'Feast and Celebration' / Patrick Lonergan
- Brian Friel and Field Day / Marilynn Richtarik
- Global Beckett / Rónán McDonald
- Imagining the Rising / Nicholas Allen
- Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century / Adrian Frazier
- Drama since the 1990s / Emilie Pine
- Irish Drama since the 1990s / Clare Wallace
- Irish Theatre in Britain / James Moran
- Irish Theatre in Europe / Ondřej Pilný
- Irish Theatre and the United States / John Harrington
- Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre / José Lanters
- Theatre and Activism 1900-1916 / P.J. Mathews
- The Little Theatres of the 1950s / Lionel Pilkington
- Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940 / Richard Cave
- Brian Friel and Tom Murphy / Anthony Roche
- Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness / Helen Heusner Lojek
- 'As We Must' / Victor Merriman
- From Troubles To Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern Ireland / Mark Phelan
- O'Casey and the City / Christopher Murray
- Places of Performance / Chris Morash
- Irish Theatre Devised / Brian Singleton
- 'We Were Very Young and We Shrank From Nothing' / Shaun Richards
- Missing Links / Brad Kent
- The Riot of Spring / Mary Burke
- The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre / Ben Levitas
- The Inheritance of Melodrama / Stephen Watt
- The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State / Lauren Arrington
- Irish Theatre and Historiography / Eamonn Jordan
- Twisting in the Wind / Brian O'Conchubhair
- Reinscribing the Classics, Ancient and Modern / Christina Hunt Mahony
- Urban and Rural Theatre Cultures / Lisa Coen
- The Importance of Staging Oscar / Eibhear Walshe
- Oscar Wilde / Michael McAteer
- Women and Irish Theatre Before 1960 / Cathy Leeney
- Shadow and Substance / Melissa Sihra
- W. B. Yeats and Rituals of Performance / Terence Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 5, 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191819926
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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