Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland : Cultivating the People

ISBN-13: 9780415069397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str.

Lionel Pilkington; L. Pilkington;Pilkington Lion

Opis

This study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Wide-ranging in coverage, this text includes discussions on: the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; and the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, T.C. Murray, George Shiels, Brian Friel, and Frank McGuinness. In its insistence on the details of history, this book should be of value to anyone interested in Irish culture and politics in the 20th century.

Recenzje

' ... deals illuminatingly with widening fissures in the entrenched post-1922 official northern dissociation of literature from political engagement ...' - YES

Spis treści

Introduction. Chapter 1. Home Rule and the Irish Literary State Chapter 2. J.M. Synge and the Collapse of Constructive Unionism, 1902-09 Chapter 3. NTS Ltd. and the Rise of Sinn F`ein, 1910-22 Chapter 4. Cumann na nGaedheal and the Abbey Theatre, 1922-32 Chapter 5. Fianna Fail and 'the Nation's Prestige', 1932-48 Chapter 6. Irish Theatre and Modernization, 1948-68 Chapter 7. National Theatres in Northern Ireland, 1922-72 Chapter 8. National Theatre and the Political Crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968-92. Bibliography.

O autorze

Lionel Pilkington teaches drama and theatre studies, Irish writing, and cultural politics in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.