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Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or
parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama
from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers
innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge's The
Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats's Calvary, Brendan
Behan's The Hostage, Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Brian Friel's Faith
Healer and Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire, as well as of less
well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Sean
O'Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd.
Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of "blood
sacrifice" and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it
argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which
centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and
makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by
colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name of
modernity.
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