Dublin By Lamplight

Author : Michael West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350041127

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Dublin by Lamplight by Michael West Pdf

Martyn Wallace awoke in his boarding house and held his aching head. His room was brown and dirty and bare. He called it Reading Gaol. Amidst the filth and fury of Dublin 1904, the theatrical event of the century is about to explode! Fading stars, rebels, whores and romantics irreverently expose the strange and lurid world of Dublin by Lamplight. An instant hit when it first opened in 2004, this hugely entertaining and anarchic production is a night to change a nation's destiny! Unless it all goes horribly wrong . . . Written by Michael West in collaboration with Corn Exchange theatre company, Dublin by Lamplight was first produced at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in 2004, before a transfer to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2005. This new edition of the playscript was published to coincide with a major revival at the Abbey Theatre in spring 2017

Author : Garry M. Leonard
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815626002

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Reading Dubliners Again by Garry M. Leonard Pdf

"The Detective and the Cowboy," "Wondering Where All the Dust Comes From," "Ejaculations and Silence," and "Where the Corkscrew Was" these are Garry Leonard's chapter titles for his readings of four of the stories, "An Encounter," "Eveline," "The Boarding House," and "Clay." The titles convey the freshness and thoughtfulness that are indicative of all of Leonard's new readings of these fifteen often-read stories. Leonard begins with an excellent overview of Lacan and proceeds to examine each story in a separate chapter. Lacan's rethinking of human subjectivity plays throughout the book and ultimately unites it. Not only does Leonard's work preserve the complex interplay between Lacanian theory and Joyce's texts, but also completes another and no less significant project: the rescuing of Dubliners from the category of "easy Joyce." Throughout the readings the relevance of Lacan's ideas to feminist theory is emphasized in order to examine both what Lacan terms the "masquerade of femininity" and the equally illusory power structure of the "masculine subject." The frequent and jargon-free explications of Lacan's terms and theories, coupled with a close reading of each of the stories, makes this a book to be consulted by anyone wishing to explore new ways to approach Dubliners, new ways to read these rich stories again.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521777887

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Joyce Effects by Derek Attridge Pdf

This is a series of connected essays by one of today's leading commentators on James Joyce.

Author : Maria Luddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521709057

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Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy Pdf

The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland.

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521368529

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James Joyce and Sexuality by Richard Brown Pdf

A highly original exploration of Joyce's engagement with sexual questions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074894

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The Irish medical directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margot Norris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202984

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Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners" by Margot Norris Pdf

Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities—produced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative prompts—arouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why the story is told. As a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in Dubliners is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners devotes a chapter to each of the fifteen stories in Dubliners and shows how each confronts the reader with an interpretive challenge and an intellectual adventure. Its readings of "An Encounter," "Two Gallants," "A Painful Case," "A Mother," "The Boarding House," and "Grace" reconceive the stories in wholly novel ways—ways that reveal Joyce's writing to be even more brilliant, more exciting, and more seriously attuned to moral and political issues than we had thought.

Author : Christie Fox
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443807739

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Breaking Forms by Christie Fox Pdf

Ireland in the 1990s experienced fast, immediate, and radical social change. Dubbed the “Celtic Tiger,” the Irish economy provided for changes in the arts landscape as well, particularly as an outlet for the expression of this change. A profound shift in Irish drama, expressed as an attempt to redefine what a play is, what an audience is – regardless of the theme of the work – allowed for a replication of this societal change in the theatre. Theatre artists collaborating to bring physicality to the Irish stage sought to explore, express, and reflect a part of society that they felt could not be represented naturalistically. They rejected nostalgia and indeed often mocked it. The newly emerging Irish theatre de-privileged the author and moved away from the literary tradition to incorporate performance techniques and movement on an equal basis to the written text. These productions emphasized the visual because artists found that words alone could not express the inchoate emotions brought on by globalization and cultural shifts. Breaking Forms is an attempt to provide a vocabulary for talking about Irish performance and an incursion in the understanding and definition of the idea of Irish gesture. The manuscript profiles several theatre companies to find common ground and provide an analysis of their performances, theatre, and texts.

Author : Don Gifford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520046108

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Joyce Annotated by Don Gifford Pdf

This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : OXFORD:555074712

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The Medical Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108048526902

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Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2084 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317269434

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Routledge Library Editions: James Joyce by Various Authors Pdf

This set reissues 8 books on James Joyce originally published between 1966 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Joyce’s most respected works, including Finnegans Wake, Dubliners and Ulysses. As well as providing an in-depth analyses of Joyce’s work, this collection also looks at James Joyce in the context of the Modernist movement as a whole. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.

Author : Michael West
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408135624

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Freefall by Michael West Pdf

There are things I haven't said. Things I want to say again. I need to think. I need more time. A sudden shock, and a man's life flashes before his eyes. He experiences an intense rush of extraordinary images and tangled memories, revelations and lost connections. People time and places swirl around him. As he valiantly attempts to stitch it all back together, will his luck hold out? The play's conceit follows a man who has suffered a stroke experiencing a series of flashbacks. Trapped within his own head, the audience are taken with him through a whistlestop tour of his life: a series of vivid, often painful episodes from childhood tragedy to crumbling marriage. In a beguiling portrait of mortality and humanity, Freefall explores memory, family and loss. From the author of Dublin by Lamplight and Foley, Freefall reunites award-winning Irish playwright Michael West with The Corn Exchange: Dublin's innovative theatre company who explore the boundaries and possibilities of theatre with their trademark style of Commedia dell'Arte. Freefall is a sharp, humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life, blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy.

Author : Olly Crick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000533293

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The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell'Arte by Olly Crick Pdf

This book examines Commedia dell'Arte as a performative genre, and one that should be analysed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice. This volume examines the way Commedia has been explored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and details its reinventors’ dramaturgic approaches, both focusing in on specific examples such as Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo and Antonio Fava, and also suggesting how modern discoveries may aid the study of historical performance practice. It also discusses how audiences read and receive masks; the relationship between the different masked and unmasked roles; the range of performance activities that come under the umbrella term ‘improvisation’; the performative construction of a role performed ‘live’ from a scenario; the role of language and embodied locality in performance; and the performative relationship between performative commedia and literary tragicomedy. Its focus is dramaturgy, and so it may be read both as a text describing various theatrical practices from 1946 onwards and as a way of creating one’s own contemporary Commedia practice. It is an important read for any student or scholar of Commedia dell'Arte and theatre historians grappling with the status of this unique and influential performance form.

Author : Donald T. Torchiana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317286837

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Backgrounds for Joyce's Dubliners by Donald T. Torchiana Pdf

First published in 1986. Dubliners was James Joyce’s first major publication. Setting it at the turn of the century, Joyce claims to hold up a ‘nicely polished looking-glass’ to the native Irishman. In Backgrounds for Joyce’s Dubliners, the author examines the national, mythic, religious and legendary details, which Joyce builds up to capture a many-sided performance and timelessness in Irish life. Acknowledging the serious work done on Dubliners as a whole, in this study Professor Torchiana draws upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources to provide a scholarly and satisfying framework for Joyce’s world of the ‘inept and the lower middle class’. He combines an understanding of Joyce’s subtleties with a long-standing personal knowledge of Dublin. This title will make fascinating reading for scholars and students of Joyce’s writing as well as for those interested in early twentieth century Irish social history.