Irish Theatre

Auteur

Eamonn Jordan received his B.Comm, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University College Dublin, Ireland, where he is currently Professor in Drama Studies at the School of English, Drama and Film. His previous publications include The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997), Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre (2010) From Leenane to LA: The Theatre and Cinema of Martin McDonagh (2014), The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities (2019) and Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh (2020). He has edited/co-edited numerous collections, including The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre.

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This book on modern and contemporary Irish Theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex and often contradictory outlooks on equality/inequality.

Contenu

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Methodology: Pivoting Intersections of Gender, Sectarianism, Ethnicity, Race and Class Towards Inequality

2. Property Matters

3. Everyday Entrepreneurial Capital

4. Embodied Labour

5. Knowledge Economy

6. Sexual Encounters, Intimacies and Violations

7. Intersectional/Intercultural Conflicts, Mésalliances, and Irreconcilabilities

8. The Solidarity Paradox: Inter-meshing Cultural and Social Capital in Lieu of Economic Capital?

9. Conclusion Works Cited

Index