The Comic Irishman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comic Irishman write by Maureen Waters. This book was released on 1984-01-01. The Comic Irishman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Comic Irishman makes heretofore unacknowledged distinctions among different types of comic Irishmen and convincingly casts away the stereotyped version of the stage Irishman. It shows how the Irish comic character--whether a blundering fool or a lazy, fun-loving fellow--evolved into a glib and witty rogue. The book is a critical study of modern Irish fiction and drama. The first part provides an analysis of the various Irish comic figures which were popular in the nineteenth century. These are discussed within a social and historic framework because they were to a large extent shaped by the erosion of Gaelic culture under the impact of English government. In the process of shifting from one cultural nexus to another, the Irishman came to be regarded as highly inferior to his English counterpart, yet amusing because of his difficulty with the English language and his rebellious, unpredictable behavior. The second part of the book discusses the writings of such twentieth-century authors as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, and Flann O'Brien, who concentrated on the analysis of the stage Irishman. Some brilliantly exploited the comic tradition, while other used satire to explode what they perceived as a debasing myth.
The Profane Book of Irish Comedy
The Profane Book of Irish Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Profane Book of Irish Comedy write by David Krause. This book was released on 2019-06-30. The Profane Book of Irish Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fierce mirth characterizes antic Irish comedy. To the degree to which everyone sympathizes with the need to mock repressive authority, everyone is potentially Irish. It is the Irish dramatists themselves, says David Krause, that are the true authors of the profane book of Irish comedy. The body of literature they have produced desecrates the sacred in Ireland and launches a sardonic attack on the queen of Irish nationalism, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the old sow who, according to Joyce's tragicomic jest, tries to devour her creative farrow. Krause discusses the major works of fourteen Irish playwrights—Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault, William Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, George Fitzmaurice, Lady Gregory, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, George Shields, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats—and shows the ways in which these works are linked, emotionally and thematically, to early Gaelic literature and the tradition of the mythic pagan playboy Oisin or Usheen. As the last great pagan hero of Ireland, Oisin emerges as an archetype for the many playboys and paycocks of Irish comedy. Oisin was the antithesis of St. Patrick, the first great Christian saint of Ireland, who, condemning pleasure and threatening eternal damnation, came to represent all authority. The bearers of this dark and wild Celtic tradition, which Synge and O'Casey associated with a daimonic or barbarous impulse, laugh irreverently at their own creations. This laughter, the laughter of the culture's mythmakers, brings with it emotional relief, comic catharsis.
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream write by W. H. A. Williams. This book was released on 1996. 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The image of the Irish in the United States changed drastically over time, from that of hard-drinking, rioting Paddies to genial, patriotic working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than 700 pieces of sheet music--popular songs from the stage and for the parlor--to show how Americans' opinions of Ireland and the Irish went practically from one extreme to the other. Because sheet music was a commercial item it had to be acceptable to the broadest possible song-buying public. "Negotiations" about their image involved Irish songwriters, performers, and pressured groups, on the one hand, and non-Irish writers, publishers, and audiences on the other. Williams ties the contents of song lyrics to the history of the Irish diaspora, suggesting how ethnic stereotypes are created and how they evolve within commercial popular culture.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama write by Shaun Richards. This book was released on 2004-01-29. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
The Irish Comic Tradition
The Irish Comic Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Comic Tradition write by Vivian Mercier. This book was released on 1969. The Irish Comic Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
