000			01462cam a22001698i 4500
005			20241010184742.0
008			200430s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781108738088
082	0	0	_a822.8 _bLecP
100	1		_aLecossois, Hélène
245	1	0	_aPerformance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge / _cHélène Lecossois
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _cc2021.
300			_axi, 223p.
520			_a"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 performances of "native villagers" in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time"--
650			_aLiterature _xEnglish Drama
942			_cBK
999			_c6041 _d6041