Riotous performances : the struggle for hegemony in the Irish theater, 1712-1784 / Helen M. Burke.

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Main Author: Burke, Helen M., 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the "critical and dangerous state of the stage in Ireland"
  • "A mind to turn play'r": Irish Protestant patriotism and the Tamerlane "riot" of 1712
  • Disrupting the "government play": Swift and the "home spun witlings" of the 1720s and 1730s
  • "But Drimin duh is still in favour ... ": music, memory, and the Irish Catholic Nation, 1700-1740
  • The gentlemen's quarrel and the politics of the '45
  • Attacking the Lucasian stage: Edmund Burke, Paul Hiffernan, and the Paper War of 1748
  • "A company ... zealous for the country's honour": the Capel Street Opposition of 1748-1750
  • Staging the nation: the "memorable night of the subversion of the theatre", 1754
  • Rehearsing revolution: patriots, "paddies", and the "aggregate" riot of 1784
  • Epilogue: containing a "national theater", the Stage Act of 1786.