Beyond realism : : experimental and unconventional Irish drama since the revival / / edited by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and José Lanters.

• Superior document: DQR Studies in Literature ; 56
• Author: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick, 1949-; Lanters, José.; International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.; National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Notes: Series editors C.C. Barfoot - A.J. Hoenselaars - W.M. Verhoeven.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Beyond Realism -- INTRODUCTION / JOAN FITZPATRICK DEAN and JOSÉ LANTERS -- \'THIS WORLD OF INARTICULATE POWER\': J.M. SYNGE'S RIDERS TO THE SEA AND MAGICAL REALISM / CHRISTOPHER COLLINS -- “MAGIC AND MENACE”: A RE-EVALUATION OF GEORGE FITZMAURICE’S THE MAGIC GLASSES / FIONA BRENNAN -- COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY: O’CASEY’S TOTAL THEATRE / MICHAEL PIERSE -- THE PASSION OF HARRY HEEGAN: SEAN O'CASEY'S THE SILVER TASSIE / ALEXANDRA POULAIN -- DOING JUSTICE TO SWIFT: DENIS JOHNSTON'S SOLUTION IN DIVERSE MODES / ONDŘEJ PILNÝ -- JACK B. YEATS' IN SAND: AN EXPERIMENT IN THE TOY THEATRE / AKIKO SATAKE -- THEATRICALITY IN VERSE: DONAGH MACDONAGH'S HAPPY AS LARRY AND THE LYRIC THEATRE / IAN R. WALSH -- CHILDE LOUIS TO THE BROADCAST TOWER CAME: LOUIS MACNEICE, RADIO DRAMA AND THE DISMANTLING OF YEATSIAN THEATRICAL SPACE / MICHAEL A. MOIR -- ILLUMINATING THE MARGINS OF HISTORY: NON-REALIST MOTIVATIONS IN THE WORK OF THOMAS KILROY / PETER O'ROURKE -- FEAR AND LOATHING IN FERMANAGH: APOSTASY AND AMBIGUITY IN VINCENT WOODS' AT THE BLACK PIG'S DYKE / MARY ANN RYAN -- THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES: NON-REALISTIC DIRECTING STRATEGIES FOR STAGING PLAYS BY IRISH FEMALE DRAMATISTS / CHARLOTTE J. HEADRICK -- “THE HEEL OF THE OPPRESSOR IN A FERRAGAMO SHOE”: MEDIUM AND MESSAGE IN IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY / CLARE WALLACE -- IRELAND, CHINA, BELGIUM, FINLAND: BROKENTALKERS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIVITIES OF POST-CELTIC TIGER PERFORMANCE / CHARLOTTE MCIVOR -- CONTRIBUTORS / JOAN FITZPATRICK DEAN -- INDEX / JOAN FITZPATRICK DEAN.