Irish theatre in transition : from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Donald E. Morse
- Foundations and refoundations in historical perspectrive. The Irish theatre: the first hundred years 1897-1997 / Christopher Murray
- Engaging with a changing reality. Black hole experiences: moochers, smoochers, dig outs and the parables and spasms of time in Conor McPherson's The night alive / Eamonn Jordan
- Queer creatures, queer places: otherness and normativity Irish drama from Synge to Friel / José Lanters
- Troubled relations of gender and generation in Celtic tiger drama: Stella Feehily's Duck and O go my man / Mária Kurdi
- "The politics of aging": Frank McGuinness's The hanging gardens / Donald E Morse
- Enhanced theatricality. The play within the play in select contemporary Irish plays / Csilla Bertha
- When the mirror laughs: face to face with three Irish stage worlds / Eric Weitz
- Then like Gigli, now like Bette: the grotesque and the sublime in Mark O'Rowe's Terminus / Ondřej Pilný
- Reframing transition. Shakespearean productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985 / Patrick Lonergan
- Snapshots: a year in the life of a theatre judge / Nicholas Grene
- The Irish play on the London stage: an overview from independence to the present / Peter James Harris
- Inventiveness and expanding the stage. The diverse dramatic contributions of Frank McGuinness / Helen Heuser Lojek
- Pat Kinevane's Forgotten and silent: universalizing the abject / Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
- Writing for "the real national theatre": Stewart Parker's plays for television / Clare Wallace
- Playing with Beckett on film / Dawn Duncan
- On the "re-foundation" of the Irish theatre: Sam Shepard, Irish playwright / Stephen Watt.