Beneath Iërne's banners
Subtitle: Irish protestant drama of the Restoration and eighteenth century
By: Christopher J. Wheatley.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism.; English drama -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism.; Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century.; Protestantism and literature -- History -- 18th century.; English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History -- 17th century.; Theater -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History -- 18th century.; Christianity and literature -- Ireland -- History.; Protestants -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century.; Protestants -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Religion in literature.
Description: "The Dublin stage of the Restoration and the eighteenth century has largely been dismissed as "West British" and its plays for the most part have been forgotten. Christopher J. Wheatley examines the works by Protestant dramatists that reveal the complex alliances and fissures of Anglo-Irish society during the age of the Penal Laws.

From Richard Head's Hic et Ubique (1663) to Mary O'Brien's The Fallen Patriot (1790), Wheatley shows how selected plays demonstrate that the Irish Protestants were far from a monolithic caste united by the shared interest of maintaining control over the Catholic majority. He traces the slow transition by which the English of Ireland came to think of themselves as Irish - without necessarily being prepared to allow Irish emancipation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and index.