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Author: Nicholas Grene (Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin) ,
Chris Morash (Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 1.336kg
ISBN: 9780198849445
ISBN 10: 0198849443
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 03 October 2019
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
covers an enormous amount of theatrical territory ... [which] should enrich our understanding and appreciation of the subject. Theatre in Ireland is well served by this imposing volume. * Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement * The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre ... reads engagingly when consumed straight through. ... readers who make their way through it will find themselves well-oriented as to the outlines of and debates surrounding Irish dramatic production and consumption of the past 125 years. Indeed, with its critical depth and range, generous collection of photographs, useful chronology, and exhaustive bibliography of more than 700 source texts on Irish theatre, this volume is required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject. * Brian W. Shaffer, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 * It is an essential work for academics, students and members of the theatrical profession. * Mary Casteleyn, Vice President, Irish Genealogical Research Society * Chris Morash and Nicholas Grene have made an immeasurable contribution to academic writing on theatre in general and contemporary Irish theatre in particular. * Nomination for the Judges' Special Award, in the Irish Times' Irish Theatre Awards (2018) *
Chris Morash and Nicholas Grene have made an immeasurable contribution to academic writing on theatre in general and contemporary Irish theatre in particular. * Nomination for the Judges' Special Award, in the Irish Times' Irish Theatre Awards (2018) * It is an essential work for academics, students and members of the theatrical profession. * Mary Casteleyn, Vice President, Irish Genealogical Research Society * The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre ... reads engagingly when consumed straight through. ... readers who make their way through it will find themselves well-oriented as to the outlines of and debates surrounding Irish dramatic production and consumption of the past 125 years. Indeed, with its critical depth and range, generous collection of photographs, useful chronology, and exhaustive bibliography of more than 700 source texts on Irish theatre, this volume is required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject. * Brian W. Shaffer, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 * covers an enormous amount of theatrical territory ... [which] should enrich our understanding and appreciation of the subject. Theatre in Ireland is well served by this imposing volume. * Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement *
Author Information
Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published extensively on a range of topics, including Irish theatre, Shakespeare, Yeats, Shaw and Indian literature in English. His impact on Irish theatre research extends back to Synge: A Critical Study of the Plays (1975); his study of modern Irish theatre, The Politics of Irish Drama (1999) has been highly influential, and his most recent book is Home on the Stage (2014). He is a founding director of both the Synge Summer School and the Irish Theatre Diaspora Project. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Chris Morash is Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin; he was previously Professor of English in Maynooth University. Born in Canada, he has published widely on Irish literature and cultural history, including Writing the Irish Famine (1996), A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (2002), A History of the Media in Ireland (2009), and Mapping Irish Theatre (with Shaun Richards, 2013). His History of Irish Theatre won the Theatre Book Prize in 2003, and is widely regarded as the standard history in the field. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
