Modernist nostalgia and contemporary Irish dance
(2023)
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All Outputs (7)
Introduction (2016)
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John Millington Synge is one the most important and most influential playwrights in modern theatre. Born in 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, Synge had a professional career as a playwright that lasted just seven years before his untimely death at the age of... Read More about Introduction.
Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world (2016)
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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... Read More about Savage paganism: the playboy of the western world.
Synge and 'protestant comedy' (2014)
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Forgetting Follow (2014)
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Memory in Ireland is a performative cultural industry that is regulated by the threat of forgetting. Forgetting cannot be cured, because it determines the phenomenology of memory. The more one attempts to defend against forgetting as a phenomenon, th... Read More about Forgetting Follow.
Introduction: the rest is history (2014)
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If the past is a foreign country then it has been colonized. This is a book about lost histories and faded memories of Irish theatre and performance. Winners write history, no one remembers history’s so-called losers. Until now.