Tragedy and Irish Literature
Tragedy and Irish Literature

Author: R. McDonald

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-12-17

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 140391365X

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In Tragedy and Irish Literature, McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of J.M. Synge, Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences between the three writers, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

Tragedy and Irish Literature
Tragedy and Irish Literature

Author: Ronan McDonald

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-03-20

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9780333923931

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In Tragedy and Irish Writing McDonald considers the culture of suffering, loss, and guilt in the work of Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett. He applies external ideas of tragedy to the three dramatists and also discerns particular sorts of tragedy within their own work. While alert to the real differences among the three, the book also traces common themes and preoccupations. It identifies a conflict between form and content, between heightened language and debased reality, as the hallmark of Irish tragedy.

Ironies of Art/tragedies of Life
Ironies of Art/tragedies of Life

Author: Liliana Sikorska

Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780820477848

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In Plato's Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a blend of tragedy and comedy. The present collection of essays investigates the presence of comic and tragic elements in Irish literature. The works by Irish authors, be they classical or contemporary, capture the struggles of the lives of individuals and communities in Ireland. Irish literature in various ways deals with the tragic and complex past of the country, as well as an equally interesting present. The irony of the art is always subliminally filled with tragic overtones. Irish literature most commonly presents life's ironies as inseparably linked with the personal tragedies of the characters. In literature, life is sometimes described, sometimes reflected in a distorted mirror. In reality, just as Plato claims, Irish literature appears as a blend of tragedy and comedy.

Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy
Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy

Author: Brian Arkins

Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781788748704

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This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature

Author: Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3319959247

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This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets. Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century, sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate, adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world around him four hundred years ago.