Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre

Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9783319766119
ISBN-13 : 3319766112
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre by : Eglantina Remport

This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It elaborates on her distinctive vision of the social role of a National Theatre in Ireland, especially in relation to the various reform movements of her age: the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, the Co-operative Movement, and the Home Industries Movement. It illustrates the impact of John Ruskin on the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Gregory and her circle that included Horace Plunkett, George Russell, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. All of these friends visited the celebrated Gregory residence of Coole Park in Country Galway, most famously Yeats. The study thus provides a pioneering evaluation of Ruskin’s immense influence on artistic, social, and political discourse in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0521008735
ISBN-13 : 9780521008730
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by : Shaun Richards

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Our Irish Theatre

Our Irish Theatre
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015046438621
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Irish Theatre by : Lady Gregory

Our Irish theatre

Our Irish theatre
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:632529585
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Irish theatre by : Isabella Augusta Gregory

A Century of Irish Drama

A Century of Irish Drama
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 025321419X
ISBN-13 : 9780253214195
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis A Century of Irish Drama by : Stephen Watt

This book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the "third wave" of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered. On the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's first rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the "Troubles" in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. A Century of Irish Drama includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Cary Nelson). Eileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland. Shakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Hibernia Review and The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English. Drama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor

Spreading the News

Spreading the News
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWP497
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Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Spreading the News by : Lady Gregory

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0815606435
ISBN-13 : 9780815606437
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Twentieth-Century Irish Drama by : Christopher Murray

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.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0520065492
ISBN-13 : 9780520065499
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Behind the Scenes by : Adrian Woods Frazier

"The archival material presented here is important and well-researched, Frazier's writing is lucid and dignified, and the story that unfolds is also exceedingly funny. The comedy is not laid on, it is all there in the material itself. Frazier is simply the first to bring it out."--Malcolm Brown, author of The Politics of Irish Literature

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon
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Total Pages : 30
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89001282821
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rising of the Moon by : Lady Gregory

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan
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Total Pages : 38
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000000664112
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Synopsis Cathleen Ni Hoolihan by : William Butler Yeats