{"product_id":"a-century-of-irish-drama-widening-the-stage-9780253214195","title":"A Century of Irish Drama  Widening the Stage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsiders 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Table of Contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Century of Irish Drama\u003cbr\u003eWidening the Stage\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Shivaun O'Casey\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre \/Eileen Morgan\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Challenging the Received View of Early Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre\u003cbr\u003e1. The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not \/John P. Harrington\u003cbr\u003e2. The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays \/Nelson Ó Ceallaigh Ritschel\u003cbr\u003e3. Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism \/Laura E. Lyons\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Theorizing and Historicizing Theatre Controversies\u003cbr\u003e4. The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915 \/Lucy McDiarmid\u003cbr\u003e5. More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots \/Susan Cannon Harris\u003cbr\u003e6. Saying \"No\" to Politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy \/Shakir Mustafa\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Reconstructing Drama During the \"Fatal Fifties\"\u003cbr\u003e7. O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context \/Christopher Murray\u003cbr\u003e8. Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet \/Stephen Watt\u003cbr\u003e9. Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett \/Judith Roof\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Contemporary Theatre Projects and Revivals\u003cbr\u003e10. Translating Women into Irish Theatre History \/Mary Trotter\u003cbr\u003e11. \"I've Never Been Just Me\": Re-Thinking Women's Positions in Christina Reid's Plays \/Carla J. McDonough\u003cbr\u003e12. Neither Here Nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters \/Christie Fox\u003cbr\u003e13. Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh \/José Lanters\u003cbr\u003e14. The Passion Theatre Company's Everyday Life \/Lauren Onkey\u003cbr\u003ePart Five: Irish History on the Contemporary Stage\u003cbr\u003e15. The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing \/Kathleen Hohenleitner\u003cbr\u003e16. \"Ireland, the Continuous Past\": Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays \/Marilynn Richtarik\u003cbr\u003e17. Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of History \/James Hurt\u003cbr\u003e18. The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry \/Scott T. Cummings\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151085367639,"sku":"9780253214195","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253214195.jpg?v=1762960075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-century-of-irish-drama-widening-the-stage-9780253214195","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}