Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 189499512
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen
- ISBN
- 978-1-4081-3722-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection is the first full-length study to focus on Samuel Beckett’s on stage in these regions. While Beckett’s work is a significant creative force both historically and in contemporary practice in Ireland north and south, little attention has been paid, hitherto, to the rich history that the Beckett performance archive presents. This collection of essays, part of a double volume set and co-edited with David Tucker, curates ground-breaking and original historiographical research into Beckett’s work in Anglophone regions and in so doing brings to light unexamined and little-known productions and revisits well-known productions with renewed critical vigour. Included is the work of leading scholars and renowned dramatic interpreters of Beckett’s work. McTighe herself contributes as co-editor to both volumes, sole author of the introduction and of a standalone chapter which reviewer Cathal Pratt lists among the standout articles of the collection (Breac, 2017).
This collection represents a major output of an AHRC funded project, Staging Beckett, which ran from 2012 and 2015 and on which McTighe played a key role as post-doctoral researcher. Not only is the volume among the project’s most important outputs, it reflects also the collaborative historiographical methodologies which were at the heart of the project’s work and which McTighe’s research on the Irish context helped to steer. As such, the volume is representative of the central imperatives which drove Staging Beckett. The text has and will be an important reference point for scholars of Beckett. It also speaks to an emergent shift in Irish theatre scholarship toward examinations of the histories of experimental and avant garde work on the Irish stage. Finally, the project and its associated outputs, including Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland, present an important model and resource for further performance histories research on Beckett around the globe.
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- Non-English
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