Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge

by Hlne Lecossois and Hélène Lecossois

Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices - from keening at rural funerals to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108738087
• ISBN13: 9781108738088
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"