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'This book is at the forefront of the emerging field of Irish Performance Studies. While Sweeney offers original readings of some well known and several lesser known texts (such as Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa , Tom MacIntyre's The Great Hunger , David Rudkin's The Saxon Shore and Marina Carr's Low in the Dark ), she emphasizes the complex interweaving of text and performance in the emergence of new Irish theatre practices. She combines detailed analysis of texts and productions with a broad framework of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish theatre. Performing the Body in Irish Theatre re-visions Irish theatre history in its insistence on theatre as an embodied practice, whether in the work of W.B. Yeats or in the choreography of Michael Keegan Dolan.' - Anna McMullan, Chair in Drama, Queen's University Belfast, UK
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Book Title: Performing the Body in Irish Theatre
Authors: Bernadette Sweeney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582057
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9709-8Published: 14 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54607-7Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58205-7Published: 14 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 241
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Environment, general, Literature, general, Theatre History, Twentieth-Century Literature