The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 (Critical Companions) - Softcover

Anthony Roche

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408175282 ISBN 13: 9781408175286

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015

Synopsis

From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role of Yeats as both founder and playwright, the one who set the agenda until his death in 1939. Each of the major playwrights of the movement refashioned that agenda to suit their own very different dramaturgies.

Roche explores Synge s experimentation in the creation of a new national drama and considers Lady Gregory not only as a co-founder and director of the Abbey Theatre but also as a significant playwright. A chapter on Shaw outlines his important intervention in the Revival. O Casey s four ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, as does the new Irish modernism that followed in the 1930s and which also witnessed the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

The Companion also features interviews and essays by leading theatre scholars and practitioners Paige Reynolds, P.J. Mathews and Conor McPherson who provide further critical perspectives on this period of radical development in modern Irish theatre.

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About the Author

Anthony Roche is Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College, Dublin, and has published widely on Irish drama and theatre from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (2006) and author of Contemporary Irish Drama (2009), Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (2011) and Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408175282
• ISBN 13: 9781408175286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272