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Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People

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ISBN-10: 1134914652

ISBN-13: 9781134914654

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lionel Pilkington

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This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on: *the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and after political independence; *the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government in Northern Ireland; *the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre. Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical readings of individual plays, covering works by J. M. Synge,…    
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Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 272