Mary Trotter

Modern Irish Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped debates about Irish culture and identity among audiences, artists, and critics for over a century. This text provides the reader with discussion and analysis of: * Significant playwrights and companies, from Lady Gregory to Brendan Behan to Marina Carr, and from the Abbey Theatre to the Lyric Theatre to Field Day; * Major historical events, including the war for Independence, the Troubles, and the social effects of the Celtic Tiger economy; * Critical Methodologies: how postcolonial, diaspora, performance, gender, and cultural theories, among others, shed light on Irish theatre's political and artistic significance, and how it has addressed specific national concerns. Because of its comprehensiveness and originality, Modern Irish Theatre will be of great interest to students and general readers interested in theatre studies, cultural studies, Irish studies, and political performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745654478
• Artikelnr.: 39476528

Autorenporträt

Mary Trotter is Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.
Timeline of Significant Events in Irish Arts and Politics.
Introduction.
Part I: Performing the Nation, 1891-1916.
Introduction to Part I.
1 Imagining an Aesthetic: Modern Irish Theatre's First Years.
2 Realisms and Regionalisms.
Part II: War and After, 1916-1948.
Introduction to Part II.
3. The Abbey Becomes Institution, 1916-1929.
4. New Voices of the 1930s and 1940s.
Part III: Rewriting Tradition, 1948-1980.
Introduction to Part III.
5. Irish Theatre in the 1950s.
6. Irish Theatre's Second Wave.
Part IV: Re-imagining Ireland, 1980-2007.
Introduction to Part IV.
7. Theatres Without Borders: Irish Theatre in the 1980s.
8. A New Sense of Place: Irish Theatre since the 1990s.
Conclusion: What is an Irish Play?.
Notes.
Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Trotter is able to conjure up an Irish theatre throughout thetwentieth century that experienced moments every bit as laden witha sense of epochal transition of the present. Modern IrishTheatre is generous and thorough in its engagement with recentscholarship, provides succinct readings of key plays, and shows aneye for the detail or anecdote that will push the historicalnarrative forward."
Times Literary Supplement

"Mary Trotter's Modern Irish Theatre will find apermanent residence on the reading lists for every course I teachon modern and contemporary drama. Her expertise is vast and deep,and this book makes a fine, unique contribution to our knowledge ofthe 'infinite variety' of Irish drama."
Stephen Watt, Indiana University

"Through a set of superbly constructed phases Mary Trottersituates twentieth-century Irish theatre in its evolvingsocio-political contexts. She covers theatrical activities fromBelfast to Cork and from Dublin to Galway, analysing along the waya vast array of texts and performances from the high modernism ofthe early Abbey through to the community theatre of Charabanc. In ahighly accessible style she articulates superbly how Irish theatrehas performed the nation, how its use of realism can be read ascounter-hegemonic, and how representations of gender and race havedisrupted the myth of the rural in the theatrical imaginary."
Brian Singleton, Trinity College, Dublin