Irish Drama in Poland DRAMA / Asian / General

Irish Drama in Poland DRAMA / Asian / GeneralIrish Drama in Poland is the first book to broadly assess Irish drama's impact on both Poland's theatrical world and its cultural and literary heritage in the twentieth century. With a wide ranging analysis from Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Behan, to Wilde, Shaw and Beckett this engaging study explores the translation, production and reception of Irish plays in Poland. Barry Keane presents readers with the historical and literary context for each

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This engagement on the stage with the anxieties and hopes of the English Catholic community (properly contextualised within the wider and increasingly fragmented religious landscape in the years leading to civil war) opens up Caroline commercial theatre as a site which energetically discussed the explosive religio-political topics of the cultural moment

Charting the trends of the national cinemas of Poland

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Packed with full-colour photographs

Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth

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