Language and Identity in Post-1800 Irish Drama
Description:
Using a sociolinguistic and post-colonial approach, I analyze Irish dramas that speak about language and its connection to national identity. In order to provide a systematic and wide-ranging study, I have selected plays written at approximately fifty-year intervals and performed before Irish audiences contemporary to their writing. The writers selected represent various aspects of Irish society--religiously, economically, and geographically--and arguably may be considered the outstanding theat…
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Date:
May 1994
Creator:
Duncan, Dawn E. (Dawn Elaine)
Partner:
UNT Libraries