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  • Irish Literature, Irish Theatre and Drama, J.M. Synge, Dion Boucicault

Examining the relationship between theatre and photography, this book shows how the two intertwine and provide vantage points for understanding each other. Joel Anderson explores the theory and practice of photographing theatre and... more

Examining the relationship between theatre and photography, this book shows how the two intertwine and provide vantage points for understanding each other. Joel Anderson explores the theory and practice of photographing theatre and performance, as well as theatre and photography's mutual preoccupation with posing, staging, framing, and stillness.

• • by Joel Anderson
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  • Theatre Studies, Theatre History, Photography, Drama

Writing for scholars of modernity, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although... more

Writing for scholars of modernity, literature, and film, Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatize the modernization of subjectivity. Although modernity assumes that there is a difference between people and machines, a consequence of this belief has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the "crash", or collision, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical.

• • by Nicholas Daly
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  • Victorian Studies, Silent Film, Rudyard Kipling, J.G. Ballard
• • by Karen O'Brien
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  • Performance, Irish Theatre, Dion Boucicault, Abbey Theatre
• • by Denis Condon
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  • Irish Studies, Melodrama, Early Cinema, Irish Theatre

The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) spent most of his career in the United States, where he established himself, adapting crucial moments of Irish history to the stage. Robert Emmet (1884), a play produced at the end of his... more

The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) spent most of his career in the United States, where he established himself, adapting crucial moments of Irish history to the stage. Robert Emmet (1884), a play produced at the end of his career, arouses questioning surrounding its authorship. The dramatic text was arguably written by the playwright Frank Marshall (1840-1889) at the request of the actor Henry Irving (1838-1905).

• • by Fernanda Korovsky Moura
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  • Irish Theatre, Dion Boucicault, Theatre Historiography, McVicker's Theater
• • by Robert Finnigan
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  • Irish Studies, Victorian Studies, Irish Literature, Victorian Literature

The inspiration for Dion Boucicault’s first Irish play, The Colleen Bawn, in a set of picturesque views of Ireland after the artist W. H. Bartlett is well documented, and Bartlett’s iconography of wild scenery, moonlight, round towers and... more

The inspiration for Dion Boucicault’s first Irish play, The Colleen Bawn, in a set of picturesque views of Ireland after the artist W. H. Bartlett is well documented, and Bartlett’s iconography of wild scenery, moonlight, round towers and ruined abbeys features strongly throughout the Irish plays. Although Bartlett’s compositions were widely known in the nineteenth century, there has been little consideration of how they may have informed the audience’s understanding of the plays. Rather, they are regarded a set of clichéd, stereotyped images, which the playwright subverted through a process of ironic distancing and repurposing. I argue, to the contrary, that Boucicault made use of the mythical and supernatural associations of picturesque Ireland in order to convey a particular narrative of Irish history.

• • by Patricia Smyth
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  • Print Culture, History of Tourism, Spectacle, Melodrama