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Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521296281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Author: Christopher Fitz-Simon
Publisher: Peter Lang UK
Published: 2019-12-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781788748629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination. The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent. There was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray & Shine's An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O'Grady's The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread's The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden's McKenna's Flirtation.
Author: Phillip L. Marcus
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1986-12-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780815623984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →W. B. Yeats was the outstanding figure in the early years of the Irish Literary Renaissance. This study offers the fullest, most detailed picture available of Yeats's impact on that movement between 1885 and 1899 and sheds new light upon the development of the movement itself. For this new edition, Professor Marcus has added an introductory essay surveying work in the field since the original publication of the study and offering important new interpretive material of his own.
Author: Susanne Colleary
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-30
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 3030020088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. It maps out the performance contexts of the period, such as Irish “poor” theatre both reflecting and complicating narratives of Irish Identity under British Rule. The study investigates the melodramatic aesthetic within these contexts and goes on to analyse a selection of the melodramas by the playwrights J.W. Whitbread and P.J. Bourke. In doing so, the analyses makes plain the comic structures and intent that work across both character and action, foregrounding comic women at the centre of the discussion. Finally, the book applies a “practice as research” dimension to the study. Working through a series of workshops, rehearsals and a final performance, Colleary investigates comic identity and female performance through a feminist revisionist lens. She ultimately argues that the formulation of the Comic Everywoman as staged “Comic” identity can connect beyond the theatre to her “Everyday” self. This book is intended for those interested in theatre histories, comic women and in popular performance.
Author: Dorothy M. Hoare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1107605237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1937 book discusses the connections between saga literature and the works of William Morris and W. B. Yeats. The first section concentrates on the links between Morris and the Norse sagas, whilst the second section examines the relationship between Yeats, the Irish Movement and the Irish sagas.
Author: Hélène Lecossois
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-26
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1108862497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices – from keening at rural funerals to the performances of 'native villagers' in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time.
Author: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0817358072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.
Author: S. Colleary
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-19
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1137343907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.
Author: Terence Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2000-01-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0631182985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.
Author: Nicholas Grene
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1984-09-06
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1349175420
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