{"product_id":"a-century-of-irish-drama-widening-the-stage-9780253214195","title":"A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces a significant shift in 20th century Irish theatre from the largely national plays produced in Dublin to a more expansive international art form. Confirmed by the recent success outside of Ireland of the third wave of Irish playwrights writing in the 1990s, the new Irish drama has encouraged critics to reconsider both the early national theatre and the dramatic tradition it fostered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of the centenary of the first professional production of the Irish Literary Theatre, the contributors to this volume investigate contemporary Irish drama's aesthetic features and socio-political commitments and re-read the plays produced earlier in the century. Although these essayists cover a wide range of topics, from the productions and objectives of the Abbey Theatre's\u003cbr\u003efirst rivals to mid-century theatre festivals, to plays about the Troubles in the North, they all reassess the oppositions so commonplace in critical discussions of Irish drama: nationalism vs. internationalism, high vs. low culture, urban experience vs. rural or peasant life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Century of Irish Drama\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Christina Read, Martin McDonagh, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of \u003ci\u003ePostmodern\/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage, Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre, \u003c\/i\u003e and essays on Irish and Irish-American culture. He has also written extensively on higher education, most recently \u003ci\u003eAcademic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e (with Cary Nelson).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEileen M. Morgan is a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakir Mustafa is a Visiting Instructor in the English department at Indiana University. His work has appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eNew Hibernia Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Journal of Irish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is now translating Arabic short stories into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrama and Performance Studies--Timothy Wiles, general editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Watt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253214195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, and the author of Postmodern\/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage (1998) and Joyce, O'Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre (1991). In addition to publishing essays on Irish and Irish-American Culture, he has also written extensively on higher education, most recently Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (1999), co-authored with Cary Nelson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEileen M. Morgan Assistant Professor of English at SUNY-Oneonta and the author of essays on contemporary Irish culture. She completed a dissertation at Indiana University on twentieth-century Irish fiction and film in 1998, and her essay on Neil Jordan's film Michael Collins appeared recently in New Hibernia Review. She is currently working on Sean O'Faolain's biographies of De Valera and on Edna O'Brien's 1990s trilogy, and is preparing a book-length study on the influence of radio in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakir Mustafa is Assistant Professsor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Boston University. He recently completed a dissertation at Indiana University on Irish revisionism and modernist Irish literature. His essays on Irish literature, particularly on Joyce and Irish revisionism, have appeared in such journals as THE NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW and THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES.and he is, at present, working on a translation of Arabic short stories into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39959099015283,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_83e63bf0-ada8-4aee-9d69-3fa2a2020ee1.jpg?v=1648741054","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/a-century-of-irish-drama-widening-the-stage-9780253214195","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}