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Palencia-Roth, Michael James Hurt Ivanova, Miglena Iliytcheva 2015-09-28T15:51:10Z 2015-09-28T15:51:10Z 10000-01-01 2004 2004 By reconstructing and analyzing seminal Irish premieres and revivals of plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov at the Theatre of Ireland (1906--1912) and the Irish Theatre Company (1914--1920), this study reveals the critical role of Northern Europe in the search for wider, alternative models for Irish national drama. The study examines the appeal the Scandinavian and Russian traditions had for Irish playwrights and cultural revivalists like Edward Martyn and George Moore, Lennox Robinson and the Cork Realists, the brothers Thomas and John MacDonagh, and Joseph Plunkett. In Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov, they saw irrefutable proof that dramatists from peripheral European countries, each coming from a marginal literary tradition and writing in 'small' and 'exotic' languages, which were hardly spoken outside of the playwrights' homeland, could compel Europe to recognize the importance of their voice, assigning to them a position of centrality in the European cultural space. The official narrative of Irish national drama has subsequently denied these Europe-oriented cultural figures any representative meaning, labeling them as 'minor' and 'insignificant' from literary point of view, and for the most part omitted them from its historical accounts. This study offers an alternative narrative; investigating artistic and cultural politics which, parallel and complementary to those advocated by W. B. Yeats and Irish-Irelanders, it restores critical access to those sites of openness whose significance was later played down to ensure a coherent, Abbey-centered, narrative of Irish national drama. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:51:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3153328.pdf: 17615122 bytes, checksum: 4a60be26faff8bf0a61c351dc730ce8b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88570 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 288 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87289 (MiAaPQ)AAI3153328 eng Theater Staging Europe, Staging Ireland: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in Irish Cultural Politics, 1899--1922 text Comparative Literature Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.