Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index.
Contents:
The revival revised / Brian Singleton. Late nineteenth-century Irish theatre: before the Abbey - and beyond / Stephen Watt -- The ideology of the Abbey Theatre / Adrian Frazier -- The theatre of William Butler Yeats / Joep Leerssen -- Lady Gregory's Abbey Theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal / James Pethica -- J.M. Synge, 'national' drama and the post-Protestant imagination / Mary C. King -- On the siting of doors and windows: aesthetics, ideology and Irish stage design / Richard Allen Cave -- Oscar Wilde and the politics of style / Neil Sammells -- George Bernard Shaw and Ireland / GearoĢid O'Flaherty -- Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy: disillusionment to delusion / Ronan McDonald -- Ireland's 'exiled' women playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr / Cathy Leeney -- Samuel Beckett and the countertradition / John P. Harrington -- Brian Friel's sense of place / Helen Lojek -- The Field Day Theatre Company / Marilynn Richtarik -- Tom Murphy and the children of loss / Nicholas Grene -- Reconstructing history in the Irish history play / Claire Gleitman -- The Abbey Theatre and the Irish state / Lionel Pilkington -- Staging contemporary Ireland: heartsickness and hopes deferred / Vic Merriman -- The revival revised / Brian Singleton.
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