Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Stage interpreters; 2 Strangers in the house; 3 Shifts in perspective; 4 Class and space in O'Casey; 5 Reactions to revolution; 6 Living on; 7 Versions of pastoral; 8 Murphy's Ireland; 9 Imagining the other; Conclusion: a world elsewhere; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Politics of Irish Drama analyses some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works of Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon
