Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820
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- Editor: David O'Shaughnessy, Trinity College Dublin
- Publication planned for: September 2019
- availability: Not yet published - available from September 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108498142
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The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and within networks, were remarkably popular and potent during this period, especially in London. As ideas of Enlightenment percolated throughout Britain and Ireland, Irish theatrical practitioners - actors, managers, playwrights, critics and journalists - exploited a growing receptivity to Irish civility, and advanced a patriot agenda of political and economic autonomy. Mobility, toleration and the capacity to negotiate multiple allegiances are marked features of this Irish theatrical Enlightenment, whose ambitious participants saw little conflict between their twin loyalties to the Crown and to Ireland. This collection of essays responds to recent work in the areas of eighteenth-century theatre studies, Irish studies and Enlightenment studies. The volume's discussions of genre, colonialism, gender, race, music, slavery, and dress open up new avenues of scholarship and research across disciplines.
Read more- Presents a new perspective on the Irish Enlightenment
- Draws attention to the cultural exchange between Ireland and England through the lens of theatre
- Offers a new strand of the historiography of Irish patriotism
- Deepens our current understanding of how theatrical culture strove for Irish economic and political autonomy
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‘Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820 makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take ‘the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of Oxford
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- Publication planned for: September 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108498142
- dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- contains: 21 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: Not yet published - available from September 2019
Table of Contents
Introduction: staging an Irish Enlightenment David O'Shaughnessy
Part I. Representations and Resistance:
1. Straddling: London-Irish actresses and their characters Felicity Nussbaum
2. John Johnstone and the possibilities of Irishness, 1783–1820 Jim Davis
3. The diminution of 'Irish' Johnstone Oskar Cox Jensen
Part II. Symbiotic Stages: Dublin and London:
4. Midas, Kane O'Hara and the Italians: an interplay of comedy between London and Dublin Michael Burden
5. Trading loyalties: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and the Irish propositions Robert W. Jones
6. Sydney Owenson, Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and the domestic stage of post-inion politics Colleen Taylor
Part III. Enlightened Perspectives:
7. Civility, patriotism and performance: Cato and the Irish history play David O'Shaughnessy
8. From Ireland to Peru: Arthur Murphy's (anti)-imperial dramaturgy Bridget Orr
9. The provincial commencement of James Field Stanfield Declan Mccormack
10. Worlding the village: John O'Keeffe's 'Excentric' pastorals Helen Burke.
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