CHRISTOPHER COLLINS CHRISTOPHER.COLLINS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world
Collins, Christopher
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Abstract
This chapter interrogates The Playboy of the Western World in relation to Synge’s scientific analysis of fairy changeling folklore. This chapter proposes an alternative reading of the infamous disturbances that greeted the opening of the performance by looking at the relationship between the play and the ‘Clonmel horror’ of 1895. In March of that year Bridget Cleary, a successful twenty-six year-old dressmaker from South Tipperary, was ritually immolated because she was feared to be a fairy changeling. The chapter tracks the relationship between the Clonmel horror and the dramaturgy of the play, and also the shocking ramifications that the dramaturgy of a play based on the Clonmel horror had in performance when one member of the audience explicitly identified the relationship.
Citation
Collins, C. (2016). Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world. In Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland (201-258). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7
Acceptance Date | Nov 15, 2015 |
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Publication Date | Jun 26, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Aug 25, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 27, 2019 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 201-258 |
Book Title | Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland |
ISBN | 9781349948710 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/793469 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7 |
Additional Information | Collins, Christopher, Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781349948710. |
Contract Date | Aug 25, 2016 |
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