Staging Ethnography
John M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World and the Problem of Cultural Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4552815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Castle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-286 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.1997.0060 |
| OpenAlex | W2088816949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
Much has been said about the role of folklore and legend in the various incarnations of the Irish National Theatre, but there is little discussion of how these indigenous materials come to be conscripted into dramatic productions and what this conscription tells us about Irish Revivalism generally. The Revival is usually understood to mean the group of writers surrounding W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge, and Lady Augusta Gregory who worked assiduously to restore and preserve the folk-cultural texts of the Gaelic-Irish peasantry. Revivalism as a cultural phenomenon (which encompasses historical, anthropological, and sociological discourses as well as literary ones) is so often characterized as a dramatic movement mainly because the early years of the National Theatre (1894-1916) are so strongly associated with the chief Revivalist writers, whose version of a national theatre was often rerouted through ostensibly non-political works
Art · Biology · Ethnography · Literature · Sociology · Translation (biology · Anthropology · History · Irish and British Studies · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |