Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to Be Oscar's Contemporary

by Graham Price

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This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is equal to that of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett. The study examines key areas of the Wildean aesthetic: his aestheticizing of experience via language...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3319933442

ISBN13:9783319933443

Release Date:November 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:249 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts

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