Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: the Rest is History....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Walking In and Out of Place: the Pedestrian Performances of Tim Robinson....Pages 19-35
A Theatre of the Unword: Censorship, Hegemony and Samuel Beckett....Pages 36-54
Re-considering Oscar Wilde’s Flamboyant Flop: Vera or The Nihilists....Pages 55-68
Courtly Love and Heroic Death in W. B. Yeats’s Cuchulain Cycle of Plays....Pages 69-86
‘… Whenever the Tale of ‘98 is Told’: Constance Markievicz, the National Memory and ‘The Women of Ninety-Eight’....Pages 87-100
Theatre of Dissent: the Historical Imagination of the Irish Workers’ Dramatic Company....Pages 101-117
Staging the Body in Post-Independence Ireland....Pages 118-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Pampooties and Keening: Alternate Ways of Performing Memory in J. M. Synge’s Plays....Pages 139-154
‘Why Do You Always Be Singin’ That Oul’ Song?’: the Subversion of Emigrant Ballads in John B. Keane’s Many Young Men of Twenty....Pages 155-170
Boxed Rituals: Eamon de Valera, Television and Talbot’s Box....Pages 171-189
Unblessed Amongst Women: Performing Patriarchy Without Men in Contemporary Irish Theatre....Pages 190-206
The Abuse of History/A History of Abuse: Theatre as Memory and the Abbey’s ‘Darkest Corner’....Pages 207-222
Forgetting Follow....Pages 223-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-244