Beyond Realism

Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama since the Revival
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3919-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory set out in 1897 to create an Irish theatre, they expressed their openness to dramatic experimentation. However, the Abbey Theatre that was their legacy increasingly came to resist non-traditional dramaturgy. Ranging over a period of more than a century, the essays in Beyond Realism focus on theatre that has challenged what came to be perceived as the dominance of realism in Irish drama. The contributors demonstrate that, in the first half of the twentieth century, playwrights such as George Fitzmaurice, Sean O’Casey, and Jack B. Yeats produced unconventional theatre that challenged the norm of realism; they show that Irish dramatists since the 1980s, including Thomas Kilroy, Vincent Woods, and Patricia Burke Brogan further broadened the range of theatrical methods. The concluding essays on contemporary works that use multiple techniques, technology, and site-specific locations suggest that non-realistic, highly theatrical approaches are no longer the exception in Irish drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dean, Joan FitzPatrick

Lanters, José

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Joan FitzPatrick Dean and José Lanters: Introduction

Christopher Collins: “This World of Inarticulate Power”: J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea and Magical Realism
Fiona Brennan: “Magic and Menace”: A Re-evaluation of George Fitzmaurice's The Magic Glasses
Michael Pierse: Cock-a-Doodle Dandy: O'Casey's Total Theatre
Alexandra Poulain: The Passion of Harry Heegan: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie
Ondrej Pilný: Doing Justice to Swift: Denis Johnston's Solution in Diverse Modes
Akiko Satake: Jack B. Yeats' In Sand: An Experiment in the Toy Theatre
Ian R. Walsh: Theatricality in Verse: Donagh MacDonagh's Happy as Larry and the Lyric Theatre
Michael A. Moir, Jr: Childe Louis to the Broadcast Tower Came: Louis MacNeice, Radio Drama and the Dismantling of Yeatsian Theatrical Space
Peter O'Rourke: Illuminating the Margins of History: Non-Realist Motivations in the Work of Thomas Kilroy
Mary Ann Ryan: Fear and Loathing in Fermanagh: Apostasy and Ambiguity in Vincent Woods' At the Black Pig's Dyke
Charlotte J. Headrick: Through a Woman's Eyes: Non-realistic Directing Strategies for Staging Plays by Irish Female Dramatists
Clare Wallace: “The Heel of the Oppressor in a Ferragamo Shoe”: Medium and Message in Improbable Frequency
Charlotte McIvor: Ireland, China, Belgium, Finland: Brokentalkers and the Transnational Connectivities of Post-Celtic Tiger Performance

Notes on Contributors
Index