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Riotous Performances - The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1785 (Paperback)
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Riotous Performances - The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1785 (Paperback)
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"Riotous Performances is a thorough and daring analysis of the
theater as a cultural space. Through this work Burke recovers the
voices of the dispossessed Irish and the non-elite members of the
Dublin audience. I think it will be essential reading for those
interested in Irish Studies and eighteenth-century English
literature." -Christopher Wheatley, Catholic University of America
Riotous Performances explores the significance of theater "riots"
and other disruptive practices that occurred in Dublin playhouses
between 1712 and 1784. Helen Burke's study reveals that during this
period Irish theater was a site of struggle between different
ethnic, religious, and class factions competing for power in
eighteenth-century Ireland. Key players in this drama included
Irish Protestant patriots, an emerging Catholic middle class, a
dispossessed native gentry, and an increasingly politicized Dublin
"mob." Burke contends that these groups expressed their resistance
to the ruling British culture through explosive acts as well as
through more subtle counter-cultural behaviors such as wearing
Irish manufactured clothing, singing Irish songs, and opposing the
Theater Royal. Using a wide array of primary materials, including
dramatic texts, newspaper accounts, pamphlets, broadsides, and
songs, Burke places the riotous performances she describes in their
social and political context. Her analysis reveals that in the
1740s and 1750s the theater was the focus of intense struggles
between Catholic-identified gentry reformers and
Protestant-identified populist reformers. But by the1780s new,
united Irish themes were emerging in Dublin playhouses. She argues
that the Irish Parliament passed the first Irish Stage Act in 1786
to contain these revolutionary theatrics. Riotous Performances
demonstrates that eighteenth century Irish theater was not a static
colonial institution, but rather a deeply contested arena of
intense ethnic, religious, and class struggle.
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