Overview

This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes.

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Author:   C. Collins ,  Mary P. Caulfield
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2014
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9781349472581

ISBN 10:   1349472581
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Rest is History; Christopher Collins and Mary P. Caulfield PART I: LEGACY AND HERITAGE 1. Walking In and Out of Place: the Pedestrian Performances of Tim Robinson; Daniel Sack 2. A Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony, and Samuel Beckett; Nicholas Johnson 3. Re-considering Oscar Wilde's Flamboyant Flop: Vera or The Nihilists; Aideen Kerr 4. Courtly Love and Heroic Death in W.B. Yeats's Cuchulain Cycle of Plays; Paul Murphy 5. '…Whenever the Tale of '98 is told': Constance Markievicz, the National Memory and 'the women of ninety-eight'; Mary P. Caulfield 6. Theatre of Dissent: the Historical Imagination of the Irish Workers' Dramatic Company; Lauren Arrington 7. Staging the Body in Post-independence Ireland; Lionel Pilkington PART II: RECOLLECTION AND REMEMBRANCE 8. Pampooties and Keening: Alternate Ways of Performing Memory in J.M. Synge's Plays; Hélène Lecossois 9. 'Why do you always be singin' that oul' song?': the Subversion of Emigrant Ballads in John B. Keane's Many Young Men of Twenty; Joseph Greenwood 10. Boxed Rituals: Eamon de Valera, Television, and Talbot's Box; Michael Jaros 11. Unblessed Amongst Women: Performing Patriarchy Without Men in Contemporary Irish Theatre; Cormac O'Brien 12. The Abuse of History/a History of Abuse: Theatre as Memory and the Abbey's 'darkest corner'; Emilie Pine 13. Forgetting Follow; Christopher Collins Bibliography Index

Reviews

It serves as an excellent addition to the vast field of Irish theatre and performance studies research, and will be of great benefit to anyone with a keen interest in Irish theatre histories and the act of 'remembering' and 're-performing' memory on the Irish stage. (Carole Quigley, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2015)

While it might appear a purely historical book, Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination ensures that the past is interrogated with the lens of current concerns-theatrically, theoretically, and philosophically. (Brian Singleton, Theatre Journal, Vol. 68, (3), September, 2016) It serves as an excellent addition to the vast field of Irish theatre and performance studies research, and will be of great benefit to anyone with a keen interest in Irish theatre histories and the act of `remembering' and `re-performing' memory on the Irish stage. (Carole Quigley, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2015)

While it might appear a purely historical book, Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination ensures that the past is interrogated with the lens of current concerns-theatrically, theoretically, and philosophically. (Brian Singleton, Theatre Journal, Vol. 68, (3), September, 2016) It serves as an excellent addition to the vast field of Irish theatre and performance studies research, and will be of great benefit to anyone with a keen interest in Irish theatre histories and the act of `remembering' and `re-performing' memory on the Irish stage. (Carole Quigley, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2015)

'With such a rich diversity of critical voices and perspectives, this laudable and exceptionally wide-ranging collection astutely brings to bear on Irish theatre historiography numerous marginalized discourses that address the interfaces between society, texts, archives, cultural memory and performance research. These essays address legacy, heritage, recollection, remembrance, neglected or denied histories, counter-normative and minority pasts, and the re-possession of the repressed in ways that memory and history interdigitate to complicate relationships between presence and absence, amnesia and awareness, censorship and enablement. Interfaces between fiction, performance, intervention and a utopian consciousness are deemed to be hugely important. Judicious, imaginative, thought-provoking and on many occasions very surprising, this new collected body of work adds with great distinction to the ever-expanding field of Irish Theatre scholarship and will appeal greatly to those interested in Irish, Memory and Performance Studies.' - Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin, Ireland

Author Information

Lauren Arrington University of Liverpool, UK Joseph Greenwood, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Michael Jaros, Salem State University, USA Nicholas Johnson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Aideen Kerr, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Hélène Lecossois, Université du Maine, France Paul Murphy, Queen's University Belfast, UK Cormac O'Brien, University College Dublin, Ireland Lionel Pilkington, NUI Galway, Ireland Emilie Pine, University College Dublin, Ireland Daniel Sack, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA

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