This wide-ranging
Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.
- An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
- Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
- Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Acknowledgements xi
List of Illustrations xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Mary Luckhurst
Part I Contexts 5
1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7
Victor Merriman
2 Reinventing England 22
Declan Kiberd
3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35
Katherine Newey
4 New Woman Drama 48
Sally Ledger
Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939 61
5 Shaw among the Artists 63
Jan McDonald
6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75
Cary M. Mazer
7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre 87
Mary Trotter
8 Sufflă#
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