{"product_id":"9781349949625","title":"Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIrish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePoulain, Alexandra\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s \u003ci\u003eThe Playboy of the Western World\u003c\/i\u003e, W. B. Yeats’s \u003ci\u003eCalvary\u003c\/i\u003e, Brendan Behan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hostage\u003c\/i\u003e, Samuel Beckett’s \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e, Brian Friel’s \u003ci\u003eFaith Healer\u003c\/i\u003e and Tom Murphy’s \u003ci\u003eBailegangaire\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as of less well-known plays by Padraic Pearse, Lady Gregory, G. B. Shaw, Seán O’Casey, Denis Johnston, Samuel Beckett and David Lloyd. Challenging revisionist readings of the rhetoric of “blood sacrifice” and martyrdom in the Irish Republican tradition, it argues that the Passion play is a powerful political genre which centres on the staged death of the (usually male) protagonist, and makes visible the usually invisible violence perpetrated both by colonial power and by the postcolonial state in the name ofmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-01-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781349949625\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-349-94963-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 264\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47517709172876,"sku":"9781349949625","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781349949625.jpg?v=1775966229","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781349949625","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}