A Critical Companion to one of Ireland's most famous, studied and controversial, playwrights, this provides a detailed exploration of O'Casey's oeuvre taking in his plays, autobiographical writing and essays. Special attention is paid to the Three Dublin Plays and the works in performance.
This book examines the topic of 'fake news' through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
"My masters will follow the example of Rome... our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!" It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town's destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it? The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity - and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win...
This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .
The collection features plays by renowned Irish nationalists, showcasing their efforts to rally support for the nationalist cause before the 1916 uprising. Each playwright—MacDonagh, Pearse, MacSwiney, and Connolly—used their works to engage different factions of Irish society, from Dublin's populace to Cork's Redmondite nationalists. The introduction delves into the political and military implications of these plays, highlighting their impact on the Irish revolution from 1916 to 1921 and the theatrical influences that shaped the rebels' messages.
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Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher's affect Torchwood more than a century earlier?For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.
Birmingham has long been shaped by its Irish residents. The migration caused by Ireland's potato famine gave Birmingham the fourth highest Irish-born population of any English or Welsh town in the mid-1800s. This book examines this aspect of English-Irish history, and explains how events in Birmingham have influenced Irish political figures.
The first book-length study to examine the plays written by D.H. Lawrence alongside the films inspired by his novels.
"What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? The first chapter of this book is motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis. It focuses upon John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), and shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama. The second chapter takes a detailed look at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Señora Carrar's Rifles. Examining Brecht's script in the light of his broader ideas about tragedy, this study notes that Brecht felt earlier tragedies tended to leave their audiences emotionally stimulated but stunted in terms of political understanding and response. This chapter highlights how Brecht's ideas of tragedy were informed by Hegel and Marx, and contrasts Brecht's approach with the Schopenhauerian thinking of Samuel Beckett. The third chapter examines theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. This part of the book looks at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961). It explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of non-white authors and audiences"-- Provided by publisher