Titlebook: Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play; Alexandra Poulain Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Irish theatr

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Saint Joan’s Unheard Voices: G. B. Shaw and the Passion Playy, Shaw was intensely aware of the importance of historiography for the construction of the Irish nation. By telling the story of Joan’s struggle against English invaders and of her martyrdom for the sake of national liberation, he was making his own oblique comment on the Easter Rising, arguing for

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Re-Directing the Passion Play: Seán O’Casey’s , and ,Easter Rising in the wings and focusing instead on the fate of the common people. Yet in two later plays, he returns to the structure of the Passion play but redirects it to address other conflicts which feature less prominently in nationalist historiography. . (1928) stages the Passion of a Dublin

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Reclaiming Robert Emmet: Denis Johnston’s ,er Rising and exposes the gap between the ideals of the rebels of 1916 (who repeatedly invoked Emmet as a tutelary figure) and the disheartening reality of the culturally and spiritually impoverished Free State. While the play is often viewed as purely satirical and dismissive of Republicanism, I ar

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Nationalism, Abjection and the Reinvention of Ireland in Behan’s ,part, the “boy in Belfast jail” who has deliberately embraced martyrdom and whose drama is being played out offstage, Leslie is an accidental Christ who has no messianic message for the world, and whose Passion offers no redemption. The Passion paradigm, I argue, serves to expose the violence of Iri

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Intimate Passions: Thomas Kilroy’s , and ,structs. In . the Christ-figure is a “queer” whose Passion exposes the damage perpetrated, in the superficially modernised, liberal context of 1960s Dublin, by the prevailing demand for hypermasculinity and compulsory heterosexuality. Challenging the frequently asserted notion that it is really “a p

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The Seduction of Silence: Ethical Interpellations in W. B. Yeats’s ,, Samuel Beckett’s , and David Ltring on the figure of the writer, after Yeats’ . (1903, 1920) and Beckett’s . (first produced as ., 1957). The three plays are concerned with the question of the poet or writer’s responsibility in the face of institutionalised violence, when language threatens to become an instrument of oppression

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