scholarly journals Dion Boucicault: showman and Shaughraun

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Maureen Murphy
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
Dion Boucicault ◽  
Character Types

Dion Boucicault’s three Irish plays: The Colleen Bawn (1860), Arrah-na-Pogue (1864) and The Shaughraun (1874), while not critically significant, owe their perennial popularity to their appeal to Irish romantic nationalism and to their memorable character types. While Boucicault’s character Myles Murphy or Myles na gCopaleen (Myles of the Ponies), an example of his native Irish hero, was the first of a series of rogue heroes that John Millington Synge developed in his character of Christy Mahon, Boucicault also owes the character of Myles to American native heroes like Sam Patch, Davy Crockett and Mose the Bowery B’hoy. While the plays are not great drama, they are good theatre and a less self-conscious national theatre has found room for both Boucicault and Synge.

The Inheritance of Melodrama

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Watt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
Dion Boucicault ◽  
The Impact

Although many in the Irish national theatre movement rejected melodrama—‘we will show that Ireland is not the home of buffoonery and easy sentiment’, as Yeats put it—the form continued to be both popular and influential into the twentieth century. This chapter deals with the hugely successful genre of Irish plays associated with figures such as Dion Boucicault, Hubert O’Grady, and J. W. Whitbread, and the impact of the form on later playwrights including O’Casey. It will show that by staging what might be called ‘dramas of exteriority’, melodrama provided a form of theatre capable of social critique, and its persistence well into the twentieth century was something more than the survival of a residual theatrical form. Indeed, it could be argued that Irish melodrama as a theatrical form can be understood as a response to the shocks of modernity.

‘listening to this rude and beautiful poetry’: John Millington Synge as Song Collector in the Aran Islands

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-259
Author(s):  
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Keyword(s):  
John Millington Synge ◽  
Lady Gregory ◽  
Aran Islands

To date, little attention has been given to the songs in Synge's The Aran Islands, items that Tim Robinson imagines are not ‘fully thought into the texture of the work’. They come from a collection of songs in Irish and in English that was created by Synge in Inis Oírr in 1901 in the company of the local poet Mícheál Ó Meachair. This essay investigates Synge's song collection and the local singers and poets whom he met, including Seághan Seoige of Baile an Fhormna, Inis Oírr and Marcuisín Mhichil Siúinéara Ó Flaithbheartaigh of Cill Rónáin, Árainn. It examines how the music of Aran impacted on Synge during his four visits between 1898 and 1901, what his collection tells us about the song tradition of Aran, and what inspired him to collect songs there. Did Douglas Hyde's Love Songs of Connacht prompt him to create his own collection? What parts did Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats play? Considering Synge was a trained musician and composer, why did he not collect the airs that accompanied the songs? Recognising the influence of sean-nós song on Synge's dramatic oeuvre, this essay questions whether or not the songs of Aran affected his work.

Dion Boucicault Stages Mary Barton

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Altick
Keyword(s):  
Dion Boucicault

Theatrology, the New Cultural Management School in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Ivona Tătar-Vîstraş
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Management School

Abstract We are witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the theatrologist’s position in the Romanian theatre environment. While, until recently, theatrology meant cultural journalism, this definition is no longer sufficient or attractive for secondary school graduates. Romania’s higher education offer has changed increasingly in the last years, in the attempt to keep up with the requirements of the labour market; the solution was provided by the area of cultural management. Every last faculty in this sector covers the new direction of study and research. This article seeks to investigate the existing educational offers, which should allow an understanding and a new complete image of the theatrologist in Romania; in our opinion, this image will have an increasing impact on the national theatre community, shaped, of course, by the new directions of study.

scholarly journals The Development of the National Theatre in Chile to 1842

Hispania ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Frank Dauster ◽  
Margaret V. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
National Theatre

scholarly journals Ninety-Five Years of National Theatre in Sofia

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Vassil Stefanov
Keyword(s):  
National Theatre

Costume at the National Theatre, with introductions by Dr Aoife Monks, Foreword by Rufus Norris (2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-275
Author(s):  
Patricia Lennox
Keyword(s):  
National Theatre

Review of: Costume at the National Theatre, with introductions by Dr Aoife Monks, Foreword by Rufus Norris (2019) London: National Theatre in association with Oberon Books Ltd, 207 pp., ISBN 978-1-78682-975-7, p/bk, £25/$29.95

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