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Irish Studies / Film and Theater

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Riot and Great Anger Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland Joan FitzPatrick Dean Irish Studies in Literature and Culture, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Series Editor Ireland's uncensored theatrical tradition Under the strict rule of twentieth-century Irish censorship, creators of novels, films, and most periodicals had no option but to conform to standards. Stage productions, however, escaped official censorship. The theater became a "public space"—a place to air cultural confrontations between Church and State, individual and community, and "freedom of the theatre" versus the audience's right to disagree. Joan FitzPatrick Dean examines the plays that provoked these controversies and the degree to which they were "censored." Dean's original research meticulously analyzes Ireland's great theatrical tradition, both on the stage and off, concluding that the public responses to these controversial productions reveal a country that, at century's end as at its beginning, was pluralistic, heterogeneous, and complex. "A very original and important contribution to the history of . . . Irish drama." —John P. Harrington, author of The Irish Play on the New York Stage "This is a book that will be cited for decades by anyone studying the Irish theater."—Michael Patrick Gillespie Joan FitzPatrick Dean is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and author of Dancing at Lughnasa, David Hare, and Tom Stoppard: Comedy as a Moral Matrix.

June 2004 LC: 2003022354 PN 240 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-299-19660-8 Cloth $45.00 s To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.