Theatre and Residual Culture J M Synge and Pre Christian Ireland 1st Edition by Christopher Collins 1349948727 9781349948727

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ISBN-10 :  1349948727 

ISBN-13 :  9781349948727

Author: Christopher Collins 

This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively on Synge’s archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget. Each of Synge’s plays is considered in an individual chapter, and they identify how Synge’s dramaturgy was informed by pre-Christian beliefs of animism, pantheism, folklore, superstition and magical ritual.

Theatre and Residual Culture: J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Theatre and Residual Culture
2. Synge’s Life: Religion, Class and When the Moon Has Set
3. Flagrant Heathens: The Tinker’s Wedding
4. A Christless Creed: In the Shadow of the Glen
5. The Cries of Pagan Desperation: Riders to the Sea
6. A Sort of Saint: The Well of the Saints
7. Savage Paganism: The Playboy of the Western World
8. Synge’s Death: The Otherworld

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