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Joan FitzPatrick Dean's Riot and Great Anger suggests that while there was no state censorship, the theatre often evoked heated responses from theatergoers, sometimes resulting in riots and the public denouncement of playwrights and artists. Dean examines the plays that provoked these controversies, the degree to which they were """"censored"""" by the audience or patrons, as well as the range of responses from both the press and the courts. She addresses familiar pieces such as those of William Butler Yeats as well as the work of less known playwrights. Dean's original research meticulously analyzes this great theatrical tradition, both on the stage and off, concluding that the public responses to these controversial productions reveal a country that was more pluralistic, heterogeneous, and complex than the usual Catholic versus Protestant, urban versus rural, or pro-versus anti-treaty dichotomies associated with Ireland.

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<p> This study of the twin traditions of protest and freedom in 20th-century Irish theater will be invaluable in collections supporting study of Irish culture, Irish literature, and modern theater in general. -- Choice

This study of the twin traditions of protest and freedom in 20th-century Irish theater will be invaluable in collections supporting study of Irish culture, Irish literature, and modern theater in general. -- Choice <br>

A very original and important contribution to the history of twentieth century Irish drama. John P. Harrington, author of The Irish Play on the New York Stage This study of the twin traditions of protest and freedom in 20th-century Irish theater will be invaluable in collections supporting study of Irish culture, Irish literature, and modern theater in general. -- Choice Essential, not only for the very useful bibliography, but for the insights that [Dean] gives us into the still-volatile world of Irish audience reaction. -- Irish Literary Supplement This study of the twin traditions of protest and freedom in 20th-century Irish theater will be invaluable in collections supporting study of Irish culture, Irish literature, and modern theater in general. -- Choice Essential, not only for the very useful bibliography, but for the insights that [Dean] gives us into the still-volatile world of Irish audience reaction. -- Irish Literary Supplement This study of the twin traditions of protest and freedom in 20th-century Irish theater will be invaluable in collections supporting study of Irish culture, Irish literature, and modern theater in general. Choice Essential, not only for the very useful bibliography, but for the insights that [Dean] gives us into the still-volatile world of Irish audience reaction. Irish Literary Supplement

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Joan FitzPatrick Dean is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and author of Dancing at Lughnasa, David Hare, and Tom Stoppard: Comedy as a Moral Matrix.

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