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Setting the Stage - Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950 (Hardcover)
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There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language
revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was
to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations.
The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century
were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst. Yet
by the 1950s, a handful of Gaelic playwrights were producing plays
in Irish worthy of comparison not only with those by their Irish
contemporaries working in English but also with drama being
produced elsewhere in Europe as well as in North America.
Obviously, Gaelic drama transitioned with surprising speed from
what one early critic called 'the Ralph Royster Doyster Stage' to
this new level of sophistication. This book argues that this
transition was facilitated by the achievements of a handful of
playwrights - Piaras Beaslai, Gearoid O Lochlainn, Leon O Broin,
Seamus de Bhilmot, and Walter Macken - who between 1910 and 1950
wrote worthwhile new plays that dealt with subjects and themes of
contemporary interest to Irish-speaking audiences, in the process
challenging their fellow dramatists, introducing Gaelic actors to
new developments and styles in world theatre, and educating Gaelic
audiences to demand more from theatre in Irish than a night out or
a chance to demonstrate their loyalty to the revivalist cause. This
book, which discusses in some detail all of the extant plays by
these five transitional playwrights, fills a gap in our knowledge
of theatre in Irish (and indeed of theatre in Ireland in general),
in the process providing clearer context for the appreciation of
the work of their successors, playwrights who continue to produce
first-rate work in Irish right to the present day.
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