Inszeniertes Irland : Geschichte des irischen Dramas und Theaters
„Die Irish Studies haben sich […] zu einer eigenständigen, angesehenen Wissenschaftsdisziplin entwickelt. Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als Beitrag zu dieser Entwicklung“ (vii). S ...
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Contemporary British Queer Performance
Queer and gender theories have for a long time contested the idea of binaries, but Stephen Greer faces just such a binary in his study Contemporary British Queer Performance, that of queer theo ...
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The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present
John M. Clum has been one of the most eminent scholars to write about the works of gay playwrights for years, and his 1992 book Acting Gay (re-issued in 2000 under the title Still Acting Gay ...
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Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome
It would be naïve to think that academic research does not follow fashions. Writing this review in early 2012, I already feel swamped by (to a large degree excellent) material on Charles Dickens, the ...
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Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time
Time plays an important role in theatre, sometimes literally. It is the great masters of the theatre we look to when thinking about the subjective realisation of time on stage – not least, of course ...
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Frank McGuinness's Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre
Although David Cregan contests in his Introduction to Frank McGuinness’s Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre that “this book is not a monograph but a theatrical liberation of que ...
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Theatres in the Round. Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama
The title of this collection hints at an ambitious project, and the set-up of the volume is indeed ambitious. Looking at the table of contents the reader notices immediately that the essays do indeed ...
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Theatre as Heterotopia. Contemporary Comparative Perspectives on Shakespeare
Theatre as Heterotopia. Contemporary Perspectives on Shakespeare comes as a bit of a surprise as the title might hint at a voluminous study or collection but actually belongs to a slim volume o ...
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Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama
Eva Urban’s study Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama is based on her PhD research in the field and has been published as volume 31 in Peter Lang Pub ...
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W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State. Adding the Half-pence to the Pence
Theatre is, by necessity, always influenced by financial considerations, and, needless to say, funding can be employed as a powerful means of censorship (cf. also my recent review of Helen Freshwaterâ ...
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