TY - JOUR
T1 - Eamonn Jordan. The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities. London: Methuen Drama, 2019, xi + 235 pp., £75.00 (hardback), £28.99 (paperback), £64.80 (PDF ebook). Patrick Lonergan. Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950. London: Methuen Drama, 2019, ix + 263 pp., £65.00 (hardback), £17.99 (paperback), £17.27 (PDF ebook)
AU - Maguire, Tom
PY - 2021/5/19
Y1 - 2021/5/19
N2 - This is a book review of The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities by Eamonn Jordan and Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan. It argues that they each contribute to the extension of the field of Irish theatre scholarship, drawing both on new and original primary research and revisiting existing scholarship. They succeed in establishing both an overarching narrative and insights new to those already immersed in Irish theatre scholarship, while making both accessible to a readership that might be coming to this material for the first time.
AB - This is a book review of The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson: Conspicuous Communities by Eamonn Jordan and Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan. It argues that they each contribute to the extension of the field of Irish theatre scholarship, drawing both on new and original primary research and revisiting existing scholarship. They succeed in establishing both an overarching narrative and insights new to those already immersed in Irish theatre scholarship, while making both accessible to a readership that might be coming to this material for the first time.
KW - contemporary Irish drama
U2 - 10.1515/jcde-2021-0016
DO - 10.1515/jcde-2021-0016
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 2195-0156
VL - 9
SP - 179
EP - 184
JO - Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
JF - Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
IS - 1
ER -