Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play Poulain Alexandra
Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play Poulain Alexandra This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the…
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Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play Poulain Alexandra
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. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M.
Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. 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. 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
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