'A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials': Bacon, Beckett and Spurious Freemasonry in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland

by Lynn Brunet

The artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and the writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) both convey in their work a sense of foreboding and confinement in bleak, ritualistic spaces. This book identifies many similarities between the spaces and activities they evoke and the initiatory practices of fraternal orders and secret societies that were an integral part of the social landscape of the Ireland experienced by both men during childhood. Many of these Irish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039118544
• ISBN13: 9783039118540
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 210 Pages