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Tables of Contents for A Century of Irish Drama
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword: On Attending ``One Hundred Years of Irish Drama''
vii
Shivaun O'Casey
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Re-thinking the Abbey and the Concept of a National Theatre
xi
Eileen Morgan
Part I CHALLENGING THE RECEIVED VIEW OF EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRISH THEATRE
The Founding Years and the Irish National Theatre That Was Not
3
14
John P. Harrington
The Alternative Aesthetic: The Theatre of Ireland's Urban Plays
17
17
Nelson O Ceallaigh Ritschel
Of Orangemen and Green Theatres: The Ulster Literary Theatre's Regional Nationalism
34
23
Laura E. Lyons
Part II THEORIZING AND HISTORICIZING THEATRE CONTROVERSIES
The Abbey and the Theatrics of Controversy, 1909-1915
57
15
Lucy McDiarmid
More Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots
72
23
Susan Cannon Harris
Saying ``No'' to Politics; Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy
95
22
Shakir Mustafa
Part III RECONSTRUCTING DRAMA DURING THE ``FATAL FIFTIES''
O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned in Context
117
13
Christopher Murray
Love and Death: A Reconsideration of Behan and Genet
130
16
Stephen Watt
Playing Outside with Samuel Beckett
146
17
Judith Roof
Part IV CONTEMPORARY THEATRE COMPANIES AND REVIVALS
Translating Women into Irish Theatre History
163
16
Mary Trotter
``I've Never Been Just Me'': Rethinking Women's Positions in the Plays of Christina Reid
179
14
Carla J. McDonough
Neither Here nor There: The Liminal Position of Teresa Deevy and Her Female Characters
193
11
Christie Fox
Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh
204
19
Jose Lanters
The Passion Machine Theatre Company's Everyday Life
223
16
Lauren Onkey
Part V IRISH HISTORY ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE
The Book at the Center of the Stage: Friel's Making History and The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
239
17
Kathleen Hohenleitner
``Ireland, the Continuous Past'': Stewart Parker's Belfast History Plays
256
19
Marilynn Richtarik
Frank McGuinness and the Ruins of Irish History
275
16
James Hurt
The End of History: The Millennial Urge in the Plays of Sebastian Barry
291
12
Scott T. Cummings
Works Cited
303
18
Contributors
321
4
Index
325