Description
| Product ID: | 9781349949625 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play |
| Authors: | Author: Alexandra Poulain |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Christianity, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, The historical Jesus, Ireland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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 of modernity. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-01-26 |
