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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single
most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single
volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the
world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern
Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent
works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an
importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the
size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates
(Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet,
also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the
influence of melodrama, and looks at arguably the first modern
Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of
considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged
chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre,
Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching
the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian
Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also
individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a
series of chapters looking at design, acting, and theatre
architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the
critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does
not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the contributors push
the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is
a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.
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