Overview

This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.

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This is an important study of Irish theatre for its sophisticated dramaturgic analysis and for its demythologising of received views of Irish theatre. In this [Walsh] very much is true to the radical spirit of the playwrights he champions. - Anthony Roche, Irish Studies Review

""This is an important study of Irish theatre for its sophisticated dramaturgic analysis and for its demythologising of received views of Irish theatre. In this [Walsh] very much is true to the radical spirit of the playwrights he champions."" - Anthony Roche, Irish Studies Review

'This is an outstanding contribution to Irish theatre scholarship and a book that no library or teacher of Irsh theatre should be without.' - Lionel Pilkington, NTQ

Author Information

IAN R. WALSH Graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland, where he completed his doctoral research and where he is now a Lecturer in the School of English, Drama and Film. He has also worked as a theatre reviewer and as a freelance director of Theatre and Opera.

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