Theatre and Residual Culture J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
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 atte
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Theatre and Residual Culture
Christopher Collins
Theatre and Residual Culture J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland
Christopher Collins School of English University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
ISBN 978-1-349-94871-0 ISBN 978-1-349-94872-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7
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For Lesley Collins and Desmond Collins, who taught me to treat the two imposters, just the same.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the generous financial assistance provided by the University of Dublin, Trinity College. I am grateful for the following awards: the Postgraduate Research Studentship (2008–11), the Trinity College Dublin Travel Grant (2010), the Creative Arts, Technologies and Cultures Award (2011) and the Samuel Beckett Postgraduate Studentship awarded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht/An Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta and the Visual and Performing Arts Fund, Trinity College Dublin (2012). I am grateful to the various Keepers of Manuscripts at the Berg Collection and Foster-Murphy Collection in the New York Public Library, the Royal Irish Academy, the National Library of Ireland, the Irish Folklore Commission and, above all, the Keepers of Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin. I am thankful to my colleagues and students at the Department of Drama, Trinity College Dublin, for their invaluable support in helping me think through the research presented in this book. I would like to offer
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