Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1785

by Ladislav B. Valach and Helen M. Burke

Riotous Performances explores the significance of theater "riots" and other disruptive practices that occurred in Dublin playhouses between 1712 and 1784. Helen Burke's study reveals that during this period Irish theater was a site of struggle between different ethnic, religious, and class factions competing for power in eighteenth-century Ireland. Key players in this drama included Irish Protestant patriots, an emerging Catholic middle class,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268040168
• ISBN13: 9780268040161
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"