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Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play

  • Hardback
  • 271 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

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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, Sean 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.
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  • Author

    Alexandra Poulain

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    October 2016

  • Edition

    2016 ed.

  • Weight

    482g

  • Page Count

    271

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781349949625

  • ISBN-10

    1349949620

  • Eden Code

    4453874

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