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Riot and Great Anger - Stage Censorship in Twentieth-century Ireland (Hardcover)
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Riot and Great Anger - Stage Censorship in Twentieth-century Ireland (Hardcover)
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Under the strict rule of twentieth century Irish censorship,
creators of novels, films, and most periodicals found no option but
to submit and conform to standards. Stage productions, however,
escaped official censorship. The theater became a "public space"--a
place to air cultural confrontations between Church and State,
individual and community, and "freedom of the theatre" versus the
audience's right to disagree.
Joan FitzPatrick Dean's "Riot and Great Anger" suggests that while
there was no state censorship in early-twentieth-century Ireland,
the theater often evoked heated responses from theatergoers,
sometimes resulting in riots and the public denunciation of
playwrights and artists. Dean examines the plays that provoked
these controversies, the degree to which they were "censored" by
the audience or actors, and the range of responses from both the
press and the courts. She addresses familiar pieces such as those
of William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Sean O'Casey,
as well as the works of less known playwrights such as George
Birmingham. Dean's original research meticulously analyzes
Ireland's great theatrical tradition, both on the stage and off,
concluding that the public responses to these controversial
productions reveal a country that, at century's end as at its
beginning, was pluralistic, heterogeneous, and complex.
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