Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama Learning to be Oscar's Contemporary /

• Main Author: Price, Graham (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; British literature.; Contemporary Theatre.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; British and Irish Literature.

This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is eq...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Future is what Artists Are
• 2. Brian Friel: The Liar as Artist
• 3. Thomas Kilroy: Biography but with the facts changed
• 4. Tom Murphy: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
• 5. Frank McGuinness: To Hell with the truth so long as it rhymes
• 6. Marina Carr: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his
• 7. Epilogue.