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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Irish Drama"”.
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… and Lady Augusta Gregory argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, specifically the Catholic Church and its priests. Yeat's own …
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The Lost Tribe in the Mirror: Playwrights of Northern Ireland
… 1--5 including a brief discussion of the dramatists' life and work. Chapter 1 focuses on the political and social tragedy in Thompson's first major play for the theater Over The Bridge. Parker's writings on theater are seminal in the dramatic tradition in the north of Ireland, and chapter …
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Queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland
… dysfunctional sectarian binary in Northern Irish society by critiquing the construction of identities. I explore this localised interpretation of queer and argue for a re-evaluation through a ‘queer reading’ (or ‘queering’) of recent Northern Irish cultural/theatrical history, contending …
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Greek Elements in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea
… inexorable fate is given full expression in the drama, seemingly indicating that the sea by its terror and sublimity had cast a shadow upon Synge during his visit to the Aran Islands making him Greek-minded in the presence of tragedy. |Though Synge’s tragic drama, Riders to the Sea, is Greek in …
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The Influence of English Colonial Discourse on Early Irish Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1674-1754
The aim of this thesis is to examine the earliest Irish adaptations of Shakespeare and to consider to what extent contemporary English-Irish relations informed or shaped the texts. As such, this thesis seeks to build on recent interest in Irish responses to and revisions of Shakespeare, as …
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Transcolonial nationhood: Global interplay in Irish and Korean national theatre
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… between spectatorship and agency. The dramas of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and John Arden pursue such a blurring by positioning spectators as collaborators rather than passive bodies upon whom the production works. My study demonstrates how these plays represent a hitherto …