Theatre and Residual Culture
Subtitle: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 05, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781349948710
Description: This text considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge's plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be 'modern' at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Notes: Source title: Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland