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Book SynopsisConsiders the ways in which Irish drama has become regional and international in scope, and the ways in which theatrical production has followed this decentralising trajectory. This work includes essays on such figures as W B Yeats, Lady Gregory, J M Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel and Frank McGuinness.
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
A Century of Irish Drama
Widening the Stage
Edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa
Foreword by Shivaun O'Casey
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre /Eileen Morgan
Part One: Challenging the Received View of Early Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre
1. The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not /John P. Harrington
2. The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays /Nelson Ó Ceallaigh Ritschel
3. Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism /Laura E. Lyons
Part Two: Theorizing and Historicizing Theatre Controversies
4. The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915 /Lucy McDiarmid
5. More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots /Susan Cannon Harris
6. Saying "No" to Politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy /Shakir Mustafa
Part Three: Reconstructing Drama During the "Fatal Fifties"
7. O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context /Christopher Murray
8. Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet /Stephen Watt
9. Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett /Judith Roof
Part Four: Contemporary Theatre Projects and Revivals
10. Translating Women into Irish Theatre History /Mary Trotter
11. "I've Never Been Just Me": Re-Thinking Women's Positions in Christina Reid's Plays /Carla J. McDonough
12. Neither Here Nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters /Christie Fox
13. Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh /José Lanters
14. The Passion Theatre Company's Everyday Life /Lauren Onkey
Part Five: Irish History on the Contemporary Stage
15. The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing /Kathleen Hohenleitner
16. "Ireland, the Continuous Past": Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays /Marilynn Richtarik
17. Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of History /James Hurt
18. The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry /Scott T. Cummings
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
