Donald E. Morse The Irish Theatre inTransition celebrates the creative andrichly vibrantIrish theatre. This theatre,since its foundation, has always been in healthytransition with the exception ofa few dormant years, and from its
beginning ...
Author: D. Morse
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137450692
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 265
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The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its vibrant modern-day reality. This book shows some of the myriad forms of transition and how Irish theatre reflects the changing conditions of a changing society and nation.
It may first become tangible at a particular juncture in the late 1950s, but transition per se would be a defining constant in Irish society in the years that
followed; and the Irish theatre after 1964 would thus be not simply a theatre in transition; ...
Author: Eve Patten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108570749
Category: Literary Criticism
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This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive to changes in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O'Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien, and John McGahern.
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth HowesPublish On: 2020-02-29
ʻsupport of all Irish peopleʼ in the theatreʼs endeavours ʻto build up a Celtic
and Irish school of dramatic literatureʼ, has become ground zero for analyses
that attribute the flourishing of Irish drama to the vibrant cultural nationalism of the
...
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108570794
Category: Literary Criticism
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The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized according to multiple categories, ranging from single author to genre and theme, this volume allows readers to imagine multiple ways of re-mapping this crucial period. The book incorporates different, even competing, approaches and interpretations to reflect emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship. As ongoing research in the field of Irish studies discovers new materials and critical strategies for interpreting them, our sense of Irish literary history during this period is constantly shifting. This volume seeks to capture the richness and complexity of the years 1880-1940 for our current moment.
Author: Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives Stephen WattPublish On: 2000
recognize the heterogeneity of Irish theatre over the past 100 years , as the very
brief outline below suggests . ... and arts ) signaled Irish culture's - and more
specifically , the Abbey Theatre's — transition from the " old , conservative ,
pastoral ...
Author: Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives Stephen Watt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025321419X
Category: Drama
Page: 332
View: 653
Based on essays originally presented at a symposium entitled "Nationalism and a national theatre: 100 years of Irish drama" convened at Indiana University, May 26-29, 1999.
(1977), Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn: A Play in Two Acts, adapted by P. J. O'
Connor, New Abbey Theatre Series, vol. ... 20-56 (1988), Transitions: Narratives
in Modern Irish Culture, Dublin; Wolfhound Kelly, John and Ronald Schuchard ...
Author: Christopher Murray
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815606435
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 288
View: 531
This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
Irish Drama in Transition 1966 — 1978 . Etudes Irlandaises 4 . ... O ' Mahony , M .
: Progress Guide to Anglo - Irish Plays . Dublin , 1960 . Pannecoucke , J . - M . : „
John Brendan Keane and the New Irish Rural Drama “ . – In Rafroidi , P . et al .
The Contemporary Drama of Ireland . Boston : Little , Brown & Co. , 1928 . Byrne ,
Dawson , The Story of Ireland's National Theatre . Dublin : The Talbot Press ,
1929 . Corkery , Daniel , Synge and Anglo - Irish Literature . New York :
Longmans ...
Among the directors who made the transition from television to cinema were
Arthur Penn , Robert Mulligan , John Frankenheimer , Sidney Lumet , and ...
Christopher Murray , “ Irish Drama in Transition 1966-1978 ” , Érudes Irlandaises
, No.
See also Maxwell , Critical History , 158 – 212 ; and Christopher Murray , “ Irish Drama in Transition 1966 – 1978 , " Etudes Irlandaises , n . s . 4 ( December
1979 ) : 287 – 308 , and “ Recent Irish Drama , ” in Studies in Anglo - Irish
Literature ...
This book addresses the variety and complexity of Ireland's leading living dramatist by bringing together a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches.
Author: Alan J. Peacock
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0861403495
Category: Drama
Page: 267
View: 983
This book addresses the variety and complexity of Ireland's leading living dramatist by bringing together a range of academic and other professional and creative approaches. The contributors, including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, invoke the intellectual richness, humanity, and protean skill and invention of Friel's work.
Moriarty , Eileen Marie . “ John B . Keane : Kerry Dramatist . ” Ph . D . diss . ,
University of Washington , 1980 . Moseley , Virginia . “ A Week in Dublin . ”
Modern Drama 4 ( 1961 ) : 164 – 71 . Murray , Christopher . " Irish Drama in Transition 1966 ...
Author: Marie Hubert Kealy
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015033081582
Category: Drama
Page: 137
View: 566
This volume presents a way of reading the work of Kerry playwright John B. Keane. In it, Sister Marie Hubert Kealy focuses on the use of place as an interpretative device and suggests that sense of place can both situate the action of a drama and provide a context for examining social issues. Keane's works are well suited to such a focus because he has the gift of projecting universal human struggles into the characters and events of a specific region. An examination of the importance of John B. Keane in contemporary Irish literature cuts across the genres of drama, fiction, and non-fiction; however, Keane is best known as a playwright. His appreciation of place and his adapting the spirit of his own locale to the stage provides a way into the meaning of contemporary drama. His plays stand somewhere between the perceived traditions of rural Ireland and the inroads of the modern world. Keane's popularity results, at least in part, from his creation of characters native to his landscape, who embody both the cultural and emotional associations of the rural Irish and the universal conflicts between tradition and modernity. This study examines place as a key to meaning. It interprets the use of specific stage conventions as a signal of the cultural heritage of Ireland. Keane's use of regional characters, dialects, songs, and costumes - as well as the cottage setting - provides a frame for the playwright's view of Ireland, since he tends toward a critical examination of Irish life within the context of folklore and traditional values. Thus, sense of place, heightened by the selectivity of art, results in a way of seeing reality. The literary landscape creates a relationship between the artist and his audience based on their shared heritage. Although Keane employs traditional themes - the made-marriage, land, emigration - his angle of vision shifts the familiar motifs from the political interests of the early Abbey plays to a concern for the individual within the system. The same conventions that evoke the Kerry landscape also comprise a frame of reference for the thematic concerns of his plots. Traditional characters juxtaposed with contemporary issues result in the dual thrust of nostalgia and criticism that marks his plays. He attacks with laughter the narrowness of the institutions that constrict individuality, yet he expresses a nostalgia for the old ways that have disappeared. Such a dual vision is Keane's share of the satiric gift. John B. Keane speaks for and to his generation. His work is regional in the best sense. By drawing on the importance of place in Irish culture, Keane orders his perceptions of contemporary life. He deserves to be recognized as a playwright who expresses the struggle for individual identity against a background of cultural expectations.
Pp . 22 - 25 , et passim . Discussion of THE BENDING OF THE BOUGH as
revised from Martyn ' s original . h few other slight refs to GM ' s connection while
the Irish theatre , . . . . . . . . IRELAND IS LITERARY RENAISSANCE . Dublin and
Lond ...
Dublin Discussion on the Media ' , Christus Rex , vol . xix , no . 1 ( 1965 ) , pp . 17
- 18 . Ibid . , pp . 24 – 5 . Ibid . , p . 24 . Christopher Murray , ' Irish Drama in Transition 1966 – 1978 ' , Études Irlandaises , no . 4 , Nouvelle Serie ( December
...
Author: Luke Gibbons
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015037844803
Category: History
Page: 214
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As a consequence, national identity is not a fixed entity but must be understood in terms of specific cultural practices, the multiple narratives and symbolic forms through which we make sense of our lives. The author argues that this requires a rethinking of key concepts of tradition and modernity, race, gender, and class as they bear on an understanding of contemporary Ireland.
368p ( The modern Irish drama : a documentary history , 5 ) 2335. Hurt , James .
... The emergence of a city society : Dublin as a setting in modern Anglo - Irish
drama . ' AuE 20 '83 83–94 2342. ... Irish drama in transition 1966–1978 . ' EI 4 '
79 ...
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: MINN:31951D01607385W
Category: Drama
Page: 632
View: 988
The successor to modern drama scholarship and criticism 1966-1980, the present volume is a classified, selective list of publications for the period 1981-1990, with many additions and corrections to the previous volume. It refines and supplements the series of annual bibliographies that Charles Carpenter compiled for the journal Modern Drama from 1982 to 1993. The work is designed both as a convenient checklist of significant scholarship on all aspects of world drama since Ibsen and as a bibliographical prTcis of the discipline as it has evolved since 1980. The great majority of its 25,200 entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the nineteenth century and the associated playwrights, although theatre history is also well represented. Because of the heightened interest in semiotic, anthropological, feminist, and other theoretical approaches to drama during the decade of the 1980s, the 'Contemporary Theory' section has been greatly expanded. The primary organization is geographic/linguistic; the main divisions are World Drama, then American, British and Irish, Canadian, Hispanic, French, Italian, Germanic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, African and West Indian, Australasian, and Asian drama. A name index is included. Although the bibliography is limited to material in Roman-alphabet languages, its scope, orientation, and format are designed to make the project internationally useful and intelligible.
Murphy ' s Drama : Tragedy and After The other leading playwright in
contemporary Irish drama is Tom Murphy . Born in ... s plays dramatise this
bewildering transition , this sense of endlessly facing two ways , in a funny and
fearless manner .
Author: Anthony Roche
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: STANFORD:36105124115978
Category: Drama
Page: 292
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This new edition of Anthony Roche's pioneering survey of twentieth-century Irish drama brings the story up to date with new material on the contemporary Irish theatre scene.
CHAPTER 3 : TRANSITION TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY : GEORGE
BERNARD SHAW A ) Introductory In the context of this thesis Shaw proves to be
a transitional figure : not only in the chronological sense that his work belongs
both to ...
Author: Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher: Herbert Lang Et Company Ag
ISBN: 326102903X
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 297
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Clowns are far more vital in modern Anglo-Irish than in English drama. Age-old clown types can be recognized, and slapstick techniques recur time and again. But the functions of these modern clowns differ markedly according to the dramatic intentions of the author. Low comic entertainment, affirmation, contrast and satire are major functions of the clown from Boucicault to O'Casey. Although supposedly typical of the contemporary period, the -tragicomic-, symbolic role found in Beckett proves to be an exception in Anglo-Irish drama."
Murray , Christopher . " Irish Drama in Transition 1966 - 1978 , " Etudes
Irlandaises , No . 4 Nouvelle Serie ( Decembre 1979 ) , pp . 287 - 308 . Review of
Brian Friel ' s Translations , Irish University Review , ll , 2 ( Autumn 1981 ) , p . 238
- 239 .
Murray , Christopher . " Irish Drama in Transition 1966 - 1978 , " Etudes
Irlandaises , No . 4 Nouvelle Serie ( Decembre 1979 ) , pp . 287 - 308 . Review of
Brian Friel ' s Translations , Irish University Review , ll , 2 ( Autumn 1981 ) , p . 238
- 239 .
To the extent , then , that the theatre of Tom Murphy depicts characters in a state
of liminality , betwixt and between one state and another , within the broader
context of a society similarly in transition , it can be said to be " revolutionary .
