"Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge"
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"Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge"
Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge has often been regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices – from keening at rural funerals to the performances of 'native villagers' in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time.
Table of contents
List of figures ............................................................................................................ iv
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. v
List of abbreviations................................................................................................ vii
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
Chapter One: Staging Authenticity ....................................................................... 23
Chapter Two: The Spectacle of Modernity ........................................................... 56
Chapter Three: Performing the Repertoire .......................................................... 81
Chapter Four: ‘Queer Bodies’: Counter-Modern Modes of Embodiment ...... 115
Chapter Five: Unresolved Temporalities ............................................................. 148
Chapter Six: Creative Failures ............................................................................... 173
Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 196
Bibliography ............................................................................................................ 203
Index......................................................................................................................... 214 ISBN : 9781108767996 Page de l'éditeur
List of figures ............................................................................................................ iv
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. v
List of abbreviations................................................................................................ vii
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1
Chapter One: Staging Authenticity ....................................................................... 23
Chapter Two: The Spectacle of Modernity ........................................................... 56
Chapter Three: Performing the Repertoire .......................................................... 81
Chapter Four: ‘Queer Bodies’: Counter-Modern Modes of Embodiment ...... 115
Chapter Five: Unresolved Temporalities ............................................................. 148
Chapter Six: Creative Failures ............................................................................... 173
Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 196
Bibliography ............................................................................................................ 203
Index......................................................................................................................... 214 ISBN : 9781108767996 Page de l'éditeur
