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- catalog abstract "Here for the first time is a major critical evaluation of the award-winning Northern Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, best known for the landmark plays Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. McGuinness's plays have been performed throughout the world and his adaptations of Ibsen and Chekhov in particular have been acclaimed internationally. Memory, history, myth, identity and performance are recurring themes in McGuinness's drama. His work is always formally inventive, demanding, generous and rigorously aggressive in a way that makes his theatre a confrontational, salient and enlightening experience. The Feast of Famine is a precise and provocative frame within which to place the work. The title captures the confluence of contradictory forces: the celebratory and communal notions of festivity and the destructive intensity of famine. This study ultimately places these dynamic energies within a carnivalesque consciousness which is transgressive and highly theatrical.".
- catalog contributor b10571764.
- catalog coverage "Northern Ireland In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Northern Ireland Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Here for the first time is a major critical evaluation of the award-winning Northern Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, best known for the landmark plays Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. McGuinness's plays have been performed throughout the world and his adaptations of Ibsen and Chekhov in particular have been acclaimed internationally. Memory, history, myth, identity and performance are recurring themes in McGuinness's drama. His work is always formally inventive, demanding, generous and rigorously aggressive in a way that makes his theatre a confrontational, salient and enlightening experience. The Feast of Famine is a precise and provocative frame within which to place the work.".
- catalog description "I. The Early Plays -- II. Observe The Sons Of Ulster -- III. Innocence -- IV. Carthaginians -- V. Translations -- VI. Mary and Lizzie -- VII. The Bread Man -- VIII. Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.".
- catalog description "The title captures the confluence of contradictory forces: the celebratory and communal notions of festivity and the destructive intensity of famine. This study ultimately places these dynamic energies within a carnivalesque consciousness which is transgressive and highly theatrical.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Feast of famine.".
- catalog identifier "0820434140 (US : pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "3906757714".
- catalog isFormatOf "Feast of famine.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bern ; New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Feast of famine.".
- catalog spatial "Northern Ireland In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Northern Ireland Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "822/.914 21".
- catalog subject "McGuinness, Frank Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR6063.C515 Z7 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. The Early Plays -- II. Observe The Sons Of Ulster -- III. Innocence -- IV. Carthaginians -- V. Translations -- VI. Mary and Lizzie -- VII. The Bread Man -- VIII. Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.".
- catalog title "The feast of famine : the plays of Frank McGuinness / Eamonn Jordan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".