Oscar Wilde and contemporary Irish drama : learning to be Oscar's contemporary / Graham Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Graham (Lecturer in Irish literature), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Influence.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Irish authors.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 249 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is equal to that of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett. The study examines key areas of the Wildean aesthetic: his aestheticizing of experience via language and self-conscious performance; the notion of the dandy in Wildean texts and how such a figure is engaged with in today's dramas; and how his contribution to the concept of a ?verbal theatre? has influenced his dramatic successors. It is of particular pertinence to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of Irish drama and Irish literature, and for those interested in the work of Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.

ISBN:

3319933442

9783319933443

OCLC:

1035304861