A Century of Irish Drama
Widening the Stage (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11645996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paige Reynolds (0000-0002-6325-5444, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-174 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2002.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W1976132338 |
| Language | EN |
For years, the history of modern Irish drama--or at least, Irish national drama--was the history of the Abbey Theatre. No doubt W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, both of whom produced a surfeit of writing on the topic, would be delighted that their accounts of Irish national theatre as the exclusive domain of their company endured. But recent scholars have been less satisfied with this skewed perspective and have questioned in their work the hegemony of the Abbey, focusing on overlooked playwrights and crafting rich histories of frequently ignored institutions
Art · Drama · Hegemony · Irish · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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