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The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939
Anthony Roche
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Description for The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939
Paperback. A Critical Companion to the four principle playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival - W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Augusta Lady Gregory and Sean O'Casey - and to the birth of the Irish national theatre, the Abbey. Anthony Roche provides a reappraisal of the theatre movement led by Yeats and the work of the main practitioners. Series: Critical Companions. Num Pages: 272 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Critical Companions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408175286
SKU
V9781408175286
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About Anthony Roche
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939
What is new and welcome in this book is the inclusion of analyses of plays by playwrights often cast as marginal to the achievements of the Revival … The ghosts of the Irish Revival are expertly conjured and once again made vital.
Modern Drama
Roche (Univ. of California, Davis), whose previous publications include Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics ... Read more
Modern Drama
Roche (Univ. of California, Davis), whose previous publications include Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics ... Read more