Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play (1st ed. 2016)

By: Alexandra Poulain

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Synopsis: This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire, as well as of less well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Seán O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of “blood sacrifice” and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name ofmodernity.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781349949632
Related ISBNs:: 9781349949625
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Date of Addition:: 03/13/24
Copyrighted By:: Alexandra Poulain
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts, Sociology
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