The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Grene, Nicholas (επιμελητής), Morash, Chris, 1963- (επιμελητής)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York ; Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Σειρά: Oxford handbooks.
• Θέματα: Θέατρο > Ιρλανδία > Ιστορία > 20ός αιώνας.; Θέατρο > Ιρλανδία > Ιστορία > 21ός αιώνας.; Ιρλανδικό δράμα > Ερμηνεία και κριτική.; Ηθοποιοί > Ιρλανδία.

 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 theatre 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, 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 authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right. 

  Beckett At the Gate / Julie Bates -- Defining Performers and Performances / Nicholas Grene -- Directors and Designers Since 1960 / Ian Walsh -- Design and Direction To 1960 / Paige Reynolds -- From Druid/Murphy to DruidMurphy / Shelley Troupe -- 'Feast and Celebration' / Patrick Lonergan -- Brian Friel and Field Day / Marilynn Richtarik -- Global Beckett / Rónán McDonald -- Imagining the Rising / Nicholas Allen -- Irish Acting in the Early Twentieth Century / Adrian Frazier -- Drama since the 1990s / Emilie Pine -- Irish Drama since the 1990s / Clare Wallace -- Irish Theatre in Britain / James Moran -- Irish Theatre in Europe / Ondřej Pilný -- Irish Theatre and the United States / John Harrington -- Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre / José Lanters -- Theatre and Activism 1900-1916 / P.J. Mathews -- The Little Theatres of the 1950s / Lionel Pilkington -- Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900-1940 / Richard Cave --