Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2016
Authors:	Alexandra Poulain
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-95688-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Promotions
LSN:	1-349-95688-0
Barcode:	9781349956883

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