Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Collins, Christopher, 1984-
2. Caulfield, Mary P., 1978-

Description

1. xiv, 244 pages; 23 cm

Subject

1. English drama > Irish authors > History and criticism
2. Collective memory in literature
3. History in literature
4. Literature and history > Ireland
5. Theater and society > Ireland
6. English drama > Irish authors
7. Literature
8. Literature and history
9. Theater and society
10. Drama
11. Englisch
12. Kollektives Gedächtnis
13. Ireland > In literature
14. Ireland

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: the rest is history / Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield -- Legacy and heritage. Walking in and out of place: the pedestrian performances of Tim Robinson / Daniel Sack -- A theatre of the unword: censorship, hegemony, and Samuel Beckett / Nicholas Johnson -- Re-considering Oscar Wilde's flamboyant flop: Vera or the nihilists / Aideen Kerr -- Courtly love and heroic death in W.B. Yeats's Cuchulain cycle of plays / Paul Murphy -- Whenever the tale of '98 is told: Constance Markievicz, the national memory and "the women of ninety-eight" / Mary P. Caulfield -- Theatre of dissent: the historical imagination of the Irish Workers' Dramatic Company / Lauren Arrington -- Staging the body in post-independence Ireland / Lionel Pilkington -- Recollection and remembrance. Pampooties and keening: alternate ways of performing memory in J.M. Synge's plays / Hélène Lecossois -- "Why do you always be singin' that oul' song?": the subversion of emigrant ballads in John B. Keane's Many young men of twenty / Joseph Greenwood -- Boxed rituals: Eamon De Valera, television, and Talbot's box / Michael Jaros -- Unblessed amongst women: performing patriarchy without men in contemporary Irish theatre / Cormac O'Brien -- The abuse of history/a history of abuse: theatre as memory and the Abbey's "Darkest corner" / Emilie Pine -- Forgetting follow / Christopher Collins.

Call number

1. JFD 15-706

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination / edited by Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield.

Publisher

1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Collins, Christopher, 1984- editor.
2. Caulfield, Mary P., 1978- editor.

LCCN

1. 2014025314

ISBN

1. 9781137362179 hardback
2. 1137362170 hardback

Research call number

1. JFD 15-706