Donald Morse

Irish Theatre in Transition: from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-first Century Donald Morse

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction: The Irish Theater in Transition; Donald E MorsePART I: FOUNDATIONS AND REFOUNDATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE1. The Irish Theatre: The First Hundred Years 1897-1997; Christopher MurrayPART II: ENGAGING WITH A CHANGING REALITY2. Black Hole Experiences: Moochers, Smoochers, Dig Outs and the Parables and Spasms of Time in Conor McPherson's The Night Alive; Eamonn Jordan 3. Queer Creatures, Queer Places: Otherness and Normativity in Irish Drama from Synge to Friel; Jose Lanters4. Troubled Relations of Gender and Generation in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily's Duck and O Go My Man; Maria Kurdi5. 'The Politics of Aging': Frank McGuinness's The Hanging Gardens; Donald E MorsePART III: ENHANCED THEATRICALITY6. The Play within the Play in Select Contemporary Irish Plays; Csilla Bertha7. When the Mirror Laughs: Face to Face with Three Irish Stage Worlds; Eric Weitz8. Then Like Gigli, Now Like Bette: The Grotesque and the Sublime in Mark O'Rowe's Terminus; Ondrej PilnyPART IV: REFRAIMING TRANSITION9. Shakespearean Productions at the Abbey Theatre: 1970-1985; Patrick Lonergan10. Snapshots: A Year in the Life of a Theatre Judge; Nicholas Grene11. The Irish Play on the London Stage: An Overview from Independence to the Present; Peter James HarrisPART V: INVENTIVENESS AND EXPANDING THE STAGE12. The Diverse Dramatic Contributions of Frank McGuinness; Helen Heuser Lojek13. Pat Kinevane's Forgotten and Silent: Universalizing the Abject; Joan FitzPatrick Dean14. Writing for 'the real national theatre' - Stewart Parker's Plays for Television; Clare Wallace15. Playing with Minds: Beckett on Film; Dawn DuncanPART VI: ON THE RE-FOUNDATION OF THE IRISH THEATRE16. Sam Shepard, Irish Playwright; Stephen WattFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndexBiographical Note: Donald E. Morse is University Professor of American, Irish and English Literature at the University of Debrecen, Hungary and Professor Emeritus of English and Rhetoric at Oakland University, USA. He has published widely in Irish Studies, including essays in scholarly journals and edited volumes around the world. Several of his books have been written or edited with the Hungarian Irish scholar, Csilla Bertha, and include More Real than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (1991), "A Small Nation's Contribution to the World" (1993), Worlds Visible and Invisble (1994) and The Dramatic Artistry of Brian Friel (with Maria Kurdi, 2006).