The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre /
The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theater from the late nineteenth-ce...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks of literature.
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| Summary: | The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theater from the late nineteenth-century theater to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theater. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theater out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw and Beckett, Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theater, Irish-language theater and alternative theatrers, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theater, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theater architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom. All of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 764 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780198706137 0198706138 |