Theatre and Nationalism in 20th-Century Ireland / / ed. by Robert O'Driscoll.
Great moments of theatrical achievement have often coincided with moments of national excitement and tension. In Ireland, after the death of Parnell in 1891, cultural and political nationalists had urgent need of each other’s vitality and vision, as both worked towards the common goal of liberating...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1971 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Stars of the Abbey's ascendancy
- 'Intellectual hatred' and 'intellectual nationalism': the paradox of passionate politics
- Two lectures on the Irish theatre by W. B. Yeats
- Nationalism from the Abbey stage
- The Rising
- Sean O'Casey and the higher nationalism: the desecration of Ireland's household gods
- Yeats, theatre, and nationalism
- Hie and Ille: Shaw and Yeats
- The absence of nationalism in the work of Samuel Beckett
- Notes