Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment
Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre
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ISBN-13:
9781788748629
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.12.2019
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Christopher Fitz-Simon
Gewicht:
466 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Serie:
206, Carysfort Press Ltd.
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination.The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent. There was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray & Shine¿s An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O¿Grady¿s The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread¿s The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden¿s McKennäs Flirtation.
CONTENTS: THE BACKGROUND TO PERFORMANCE - THE PLAYWRITING TRADITION - A PATRIOTIC (OR SUBVERSIVE) THEATRE - HUBERT O'GRADY: REFORMER DISGUISED AS A GOMMOCH - J.W. WHITBREAD: ENTREPRENEUR IN JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND - TRUE GREEN: WHITBREAD'S IRISH HEROES - TRULY IRISH: A CORNUCOPIA OF PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS - QUASI IRISH: A GALLERY OF PLAYS BY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS
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