Abstract
Preliminary Table of Contents: A Century of Irish Drama Widening the Stage Edited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir Mustafa Foreword by Shivaun O'Casey Acknowledgments Introduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre /Eileen Morgan Part One: Challenging the Received View of Early Twentieth-Century Irish Theatre 1. The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not /John P. Harrington 2. The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays /Nelson O Ceallaigh Ritschel 3. Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism /Laura E. Lyons Part Two: Theorizing and Historicizing Theatre Controversies 4. The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915 /Lucy McDiarmid 5. More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots /Susan Cannon Harris 6. Saying No to Politics: Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy /Shakir Mustafa Part Three: Reconstructing Drama During the Fatal Fifties 7. O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context /Christopher Murray 8. Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet /Stephen Watt 9. Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett /Judith Roof Part Four: Contemporary Theatre Projects and Revivals 10. Translating Women into Irish Theatre History /Mary Trotter 11. I've Never Been Just Me: Re-Thinking Women's Positions in Christina Reid's Plays /Carla J. McDonough 12. Neither Here Nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters /Christie Fox 13. Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh /Jose Lanters 14. The Passion Theatre Company's Everyday Life /Lauren Onkey Part Five: Irish History on the Contemporary Stage 15. The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing /Kathleen Hohenleitner 16. Ireland, the Continuous Past: Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays /Marilynn Richtarik 17. Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of History /James Hurt 18. The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry /Scott T. Cummings Bibliography Contributors Index
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