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Staging the Easter Rising - 1916 as Theatre (Hardcover)
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Staging the Easter Rising - 1916 as Theatre (Hardcover)
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* An exciting new interpretation of 1916 as theatre and its later
representation on the stage, with a particular focus on
gender."Both stylistically and conceptually, the author works in
broad vivid strokes, ultimately producing a book that re-imagines
familiar territory in an original and often unexpected way. This is
a brave book, one that wades into the undergrowth of some of the
bigger and more perilous jungles of Irish cultural debate: Yeats,
Casement, the women of 1916, the Abbey and elitism, de Valera,
revisionism." -- Christopher MorashThis is the most original
exploration of representations of the 1916 Rising since William
Irwin Thompson's 1967 classic, The Imagination of an Insurrection.
It offers new insights into the studied theatricality of the
rising, in the context of plays by Pearse and MacDonagh and a
rediscovered play of Connolly's Under Which Flag? The book argues
that the Rising set out to proclaim sexual equality as well as
political independence, but that, while the myth of 1916 became
central to Irish political and cultural life, the rebels' radical
ideas about gender were ignored.New readings and contexts are
provided for O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and for Yeats's The
Dreaming of the Bones. The role of de Valera in the shaping of
official commemoration is assessed, while the intervention of Shaw
throws new light on the Casement controversy. Surveying
representations of the Rising in more recent Irish theatre,
especially since the 1966 commemoration, the author shows how
gender issues have resurfaced.
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