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The "Playboy" riots, by James Kilroy

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

The "Playboy" riots

bibliography

by James Kilroy

The Irish theatre series, 4

"'A strong protest must be entered against this unmitigated, protracted libel upon Irish peasant men, and, worse still, upon Irish peasant girlhood... No denunciation could be sufficiently strong.' Thus was Synge's The Playboy of the Western World reviewed after its stormy first night. The Playboy became the focus for a heated discussion on the role of the national theatre and of Irish drama. James Kilroy has collected the attacks and counter-attacks on the play and analysed the far-reaching implications of points of view adopted on this controversy. He shows how sensitivity to the stage Irishman and to whatever could be interpreted as a slur on the good name of the Irish, when focussed on the presentation of an Irish play, raised questions, not only of morality, but also of aesthetics and literary criticism, and, significantly, of Irish nationalism." -- back cover