Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:35
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Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949
By Paul Murphy
* Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
* Number Of Pages: 256
* Publication Date: 2008-12-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0230536832
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780230536838
Review
'Paul Murphy excavates some neglected Irish drama, and re-reads more familiar plays, with an arrestingly original combination of historical and psychoanalytical insight. This is a brave, trenchant work, which probes away most rewardingly at the rich seam where history and fantasy meet.' - Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Manchester, UK
'In a superbly argued and well theorised book, Paul Murphy shifts the narrative of Irish theatre history beyond nation formation and into the very productive terrain of the class and gender of the country's subalterns in performance.' Brian Singleton, Head of Drama, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; President, International Federation for Theatre Research
'Theoretically informed and critically focused, this book is a searching exploration of Irish drama in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on Lacan and Zizek, Murphy demonstrates how central to the construction of that drama were the Peasant and the Woman as symbolic forms onto which political desires could be and were projected. The issue of class is introduced and that of gender extended in a series of meticulous and historicised readings which valuably widens the canon of Irish drama. He makes the case for such unjustly neglected figures as Northern Irish playwright George Shiels while registering with sensitivity the class and gender constraints within which a writer like Lady Gregory was forced to operate. Throughout, Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 challenges received opinion and raises crucial issues which every student of the subject will need to consider.' - Anthony Roche, Associate Professor of English, University College Dublin, Ireland
Product Description
Now that Irish drama studies has a sound platform in terms of historicization, particularly regarding the relationship between drama, state formation and national identity, the time is ripe to engage in research which questions that relationship, specifically in terms of the disjunction between nation, class and gender in the Irish cultural context. In this sense Hegemony and Fantasy is a deliberate intervention rather than a general historicization, in terms of an engagement with Irish drama primarily from the perspectives of class and gender, rather than that of nation or national identity, which has formed the superstructure of many debates in Irish drama studies for many years. In parallel with the aim of shifting the methodological paradigm of Irish drama studies, Hegemony and Fantasy attempts to reaccentuate the focus on the Irish dramatic canon by providing a new engagement with canonical drama, as well as engaging with non-canonical drama especially in the under-researched period 1926–1949.
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