Ireland's National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement (Irish Studies)
By Mary Trotter.
Description
In the annals of Irish studies and theater history much has been written about the Abbey Theatre. Now, Mary Trotter not only sheds new Light on that company's history but also examines other groups with a range of political, religious, gender, and class perspectives that consciously used performance to promote ideas about nationalism and culture in Ireland at the turn of the last century.This innovative, interdisciplinary work details how different nationalist organizations with diverse political and artistic goals employed theater as an anticolonial tool. In Dublin's turbulent cu...
ISBN(s)
0815628897, 9780815628897
