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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, and looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting, and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the contributors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.
Contents
Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash: Introduction
Part I: Nineteenth-Century Legacies
1: Stephen Watt: The Inheritance of Melodrama
2: Michael McAteer: Oscar Wilde: International Politics and the Drama of Sacrifice
Part II: Theatre and Nation
3: Ben Levitas: The Abbey and the Idea of a Theatre
4: P.J. Mathews: Theatre and Activism 1900-1916
5: Terence Brown: W.B. Yeats and Rituals of Performance
6: Mary Burke: The Riot of Spring: Synge's 'Failed Realism' and the Peasant Drama
Part III: Models and Influences
7: Shaun Richards: 'We Were Very Young and We Shrank From Nothing': Realism and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
8: Richard Cave: Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940
9: Brad Kent: Missing Links: Bernard Shaw and the Discussion Play
Part IV: Revolution and Beyond
10: Nicholas Allen: Imagining the Rising
11: Lauren Arrington: The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State
12: Christopher Murray: O'Casey and the City
Part V: Performance 1
13: Paige Reynolds: Design and Direction To 1960
14: Eibhear Walshe: The Importance of Staging Oscar: Wilde At the Gate
15: Adrian Frazier: Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century
Part VI: Contesting Voices
16: Brian Ó Conchubhair: Twisting in the Wind: Irish-Language Stage Theatre 1884-2014
17: Cathy Leeney: Women and Irish Theatre Before 1960
18: Lionel Pilkington: The Little Theatres of the 1950s
Part VII: The New Revival
19: Lisa Coen: Urban and Rural Theatre Cultures: M.J. Molloy, John B. Keane, and Hugh Leonard
20: Anthony Roche: Brian Friel and Tom Murphy: Forms of Exile
21: José Lanters: Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre
Part VIII: Diversification
22: Marilynn Richtarik: Brian Friel and Field Day
23: Mark Phelan: From Troubles to Post-Conflict Theatre in Northern Ireland
24: Victor Merriman: 'As We Must': Growth and Diversification in Ireland's Theatre Culture 1977-2000.
25: Shelley Troupe: From Druid/Murphy To DruidMurphy
Part IX: Performance 2
26: Chris Morash: Places of Performance
27: Ian R. Walsh: Directors and Designers since 1960
28: Nicholas Grene: Defining Performers and Performances
29: Julie Bates: Beckett at the Gate
Part X: Contemporary Irish Theatre
30: Helen Heusner Lojek: Negotiating Differences in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
31: Emilie Pine: Drama Since the 1990s: Memory, Story, Exile
32: Clare Wallace: Irish Drama Since the 1990s: Disruptions
33: Melissa Sihra: Shadow and Substance: Women, Feminism, and Irish Theatre After 1980
34: Brian Singleton: Irish Theatre Devised
Part XI: Ireland and the World
35: Rónán McDonald: Global Beckett
36: John P. Harrington: Irish Theatre and the United States
37: James Moran: Irish Theatre in Britain
38: Ond%rej Pilný: Irish Theatre in Europe
39: Patrick Lonergan: 'Feast and Celebration': The Theatre Festival and Modern Irish Theatre
40: Christina Hunt Mahony: Reinscribing the Classics, Ancient and Modern: The Sharp Diagonal of Adaptation
Part XII: Critical Responses
41: Eamonn Jordan: Irish Theatre and Historiography
