Nicholas Grene

Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198893080
• Artikelnr.: 72269528

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Grene, with a doctorate from Cambridge, taught at the University of Liverpool, before being appointed at Trinity College Dublin where he held the Professorship of English Literature (1867) from 1999 to his retirement in 2015. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he has published widely on drama and on Irish literature; his books include The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (2002), Yeats's Poetic Codes (2009), and Farming in Modern Irish Literature (2021). He has been an invited lecturer in many countries and a visiting professor at Dartmouth and the Sorbonne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: MAKING IT NEW
1: Changing generations, changing styles: Irish theatre in the 1990s
2: Belated avant-garde
3: Re-imagining Synge
State of play 1: 2006
PART II: PAST AND PRESENT
4: Live history
5: After the Troubles
6: Strategies of adaptation
State of play 2: 2016
PART III: THE POLITICS OF GENDER
7: Waking the feminists: women's voices
8: Masculinity and its discontents
9: Women writing women
State of play 3: 2020-2
Conclusion