The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4081-7527-9 (ISBN)
The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role of Yeats as both founder and playwright, the one who set the agenda until his death in 1939. Each of the major playwrights of the movement refashioned that agenda to suit their own very different dramaturgies.
Roche explores Synge’s experimentation in the creation of a new national drama and considers Lady Gregory not only as a co-founder and director of the Abbey Theatre but also as a significant playwright. A chapter on
Shaw outlines his important intervention in the Revival. O’Casey’s four ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, as does the new Irish modernism that followed in the 1930s and which also witnessed
the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
The Companion also features interviews and essays by leading theatre scholars and practitioners Paige Reynolds, P.J. Mathews and Conor McPherson who provide further critical perspectives on this period of radical change in modern Irish theatre.
Anthony Roche is Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College, Dublin, and has published widely on Irish drama and theatre from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (2006) and author of Contemporary Irish Drama (2009), Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (2011) and Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama (2013).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Late Nineteenth Century
Douglas Hyde
The nineteenth century and Dion Boucicault
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Henrik Ibsen
The Irish Literary Theatre
2 Yeats as Founder and Playwright
‘The Irish Dramatic Movement’: Yeats and the theatre
Cathleen ni Houlihan
On Baile’s Strand
Deirdre
At the Hawk’s Well
The Dreaming of the Bones
3 The Impact of Synge
The making of a playwright
Riders to the Sea
The Shadow of the Glen
The Well of the Saints
The Playboy of the Western World
Conclusion
4 Shaw and the Revival: The Absent Presence
The anti-Shaw prejudice
Shaw’s direct encounter with the Irish Dramatic Revival
John Bull’s Other Island and the Abbey Theatre
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet: An Abbey Play?
O’Flaherty, V.C. and the Irish in World War I
5 Lady Gregory: Irish Woman Playwright
The emergence of a writer
Spreading the News
The Gaol Gate
The Rising of the Moon
The Workhouse Ward
Grania
6 The Arrival of O’Casey
Contemporary urban working-class drama
The Shadow of a Gunman
Juno and the Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
The Silver Tassie
7 The Revival from O’Casey to the Death of Yeats (1928-39)
Denis Johnston’s The Old Lady Says No! and the Arrival of the Gate Theatre
The second Lady of the Abbey: Teresa Deevy
Yeats’s Endgame
8 Critical Perspectives
Performance and Spectacle in (and out) of Modern Irish
Theatre by Paige Reynolds
The Years of Synge: the cultural debates by P.J. Mathews
Interview: Ghosts and the Uncanny in Irish Theatre by Conor McPherson
Conclusion: The Legacy
Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Companions |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 463 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4081-7527-4 / 1408175274 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4081-7527-9 / 9781408175279 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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