Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment

Christopher Fitz-Simon

ISBN 10: 178874862X / ISBN 13: 9781788748629

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware -In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination.The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent. There was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray & Shine¿s An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O¿Grady¿s The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread¿s The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden¿s McKennäs Flirtation. 320 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781788748629

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 178874862X
• ISBN-13: 9781788748629
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 229B x 152 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm
• Gewicht: 466 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CHRISTOPHER FITZ-SIMON is a former Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Among his books are THE BOYS, a biography of the Dublin Gate Theatre’s Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLíammóir - ‹A really wonderful book› (Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent); ‹Beautifully written, diligently researched, sometimes sad, often hilarious› (Keith Baxter, Daily Telegraph); ‹By far the most wideranging and atmospheric description of Dublin’s wartime theatre› (Clair Wills in That Neutral Island); and ELEVEN HOUSES, a memoir of the 1940s - ‹Christopher Fitz-Simon’s wry and dispassionate approach keeps the narrative bracing› (Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement); ‹The sense of total recall is astonishing…it is painfully funny› (Roy Foster, Irish Times).