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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Irish theatre"”.
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The Irish theatre of today
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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An exploration of the information literacy of Irish theatre actors.
… aim of this research is to investigate the IL of Irish actors working in the theatre. The established rhetorical framework for examining working populations is Workplace Information Literacy (WIL). However, this study suggests that the terminology and consequent perspective of IL, rather than WIL, …
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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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Staging Europe, Staging Ireland: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in Irish Cultural Politics, 1899--1922
By reconstructing and analyzing seminal Irish premieres and revivals of plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov at the Theatre of Ireland (1906--1912) and the Irish Theatre Company (1914--1920), this study reveals the critical role of Northern Europe in the search for wider, alternative models for …
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… that age is a missing category of identity in Irish Studies. Chapter Three analyses female ageing on the page, while Chapter Four analyses female ageing on the stage. It also examines the impact of the #WTF movement, before considering the responses of several women directors and actors of …
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“They shall be speaking forever” : performing revolution, riot, and the nation in the centenary commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising
Throughout 2016, Irish theatre-makers created scores of commemorative performances for the centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Rising. These performances, whether commissioned by or created in opposition to the government-funded national commemorative initiative Ireland 2016, transmitted and unsettled …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
This dissertation discusses the work of four Irish playwrights: Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Elaine Murphy. Specifically, it investigates the inclusion, by these playwrights, of “elderly” characters in their plays written between 1995 and 2010—a period of …