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Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy
(Humanities Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University., 2012)Discussions of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy have infrequently engaged with the matter of its setting. Nonetheless, as we are frequently reminded within the play, its tragic events are purportedly ... -
The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, Young Vic Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)When Martin McDonagh’s Leenane plays first appeared in Ireland, they seemed exciting for many reasons: their delinquent humour, their rootedness in (but distance from) the Irish dramatic tradition, their wilfully ... -
Better by design: the art of theatre: Irish theatrescapes: new Irish plays, adapted European plays and Irish classics
(The Irish Times, 2016-01-23)This work, as well as being beautifully illustrated, succeeds as a memoir, an anthology and as an outstanding act of theatre criticism, writes Patrick Lonergan. -
The Blind Fiddler by Marie Jones, Lyric Theatre, Belfast
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2003-06-12)Perhaps unfairly, Marie Jones remains more noted for commercial rather than critical success. The Blind Fiddler – an exciting fusion of melodrama, traditional music, and great storytelling – looks likely to be as successful ... -
Bolger abandons tradition to chronicle tower life in all its darkness and beauty: BOOK OF THE DAY
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Book history and digital humanities in the long eighteenth century
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)This article examines the current state of research at the intersections of book history and digital humanities within the field of eighteenth-century studies. It addresses the popular and intellectual origins of the nexus ... -
Books on the Box
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Breaking the Book Fetish
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The brief Ovidian career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian complaint
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Calling attention to the Ovidian contours of Isabella Whitney s cursus litterarum, this essay reconsiders the literary heritage of the personae she adopts in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566) and A Sweet Nosgay (1573). Existing ... -
Bring a camera with you: the posthumous collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty
(The European Society for Aesthetics, 2015)In this paper, I investigate the role of digital technology and its relationship to gesture in the posthumous collaboration of Ahmed Basiony and Shady El Noshokaty, drawing upon the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. Picking ... -
Buffalo Bill and the Modern Man
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Building the Structure
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The Call by Tara Maria Lovett, Peri-Talking at The Crypt
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2002)Arriving to watch Tara Maria Lovett’s The Call, we realise that we have entered a human body. The room pulses with red lighting as we take our seats around a ribcage, a pile of stones at its centre representing a heart. ... -
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ... -
“Certaine Amorous Sonnets, Betweene Venus and Adonis”: fictive acts of writing in The Passionate Pilgrime of 1612
(Etudes Epistémè, 2012)In c. 1599, the London stationer William Jaggard produced two editions of The Passionate Pilgrime, a collection of twenty poems best known for its inclusion of five sonnets by William Shakespeare. Having been lengthened ... -
Chance and Change
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Citizens of the World
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Configuring Irishness through coaching films: Peil (1962) and Christy Ring (1964)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-12)The sports coaching film has a long history, dating from at least 1932 with the production of Paulette McDonagh s How I Play Cricket which featured the legendary Don Bradman. However, coaching films dedicated to indigenous ... -
A Contemporary Caper
(The Irish Times, 2005-04-30)