YEATS ON THEATRE Cambridge University Press Christopher Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing (English) Find Out More Read an excerpt WB Yeats was famous as a poet yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theatre as his main accomplishment. Yeats on Theatre restores Yeats not only as a playwright, but as a writer and thinker who, over forty years, produced a body of theory covering all aspects of theatre, including the possibilities of performance space, the role of the audience and the nature of tragedy. When read as a whole, in conjunction with his plays, letters, and extensive manuscript materials, Yeats’s theatre writings emerge as a radical, cohesive, theatrical aesthetic, at odds with – and in advance of – the theatre of his time. Ultimately, the Yeats who takes shape in Yeats on Theatre is an artist who thinks through theatre, providing us with an urgently needed reassertion of the value of theatre as embodied thought. THE EARLY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: ARCHITECTURE, FINANCING, PEOPLE Four Courts Press R. A. Somerville, Fellow Emeritus, Economics Find Out More Read an excerpt Among all the early buildings of Trinity, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential buildings of the early 18th century, only the Rubrics remains - much altered - to suggest what Trinity College looked like before the 1750s. Why and when were new buildings added to the college, beyond the original Quadrangle? How were they funded? Who designed them? Where were materials sourced? What can be said about the architecture of the buildings, all of which, apart from the Rubrics, were pulled down in the 18th and 19th centuries? Who managed their construction on the college’s behalf, and who carried out the building work? How were essential services provided? This book answers these questions and en route explores an almost forgotten event, the disastrous fire of February 1726/7, in which at least one house in Library Square was destroyed and several more were damaged. The second part of the book explores the community of residents of the early buildings, up to the end of the nineteenth century. I, ANTIGONE Find Out More New Island Carlo Gébler, Adjunct Assistant Professor (English) Read an excerpt ‘The book ultimately meditates on the illusion of free will, and the warning that context is everything, I, Antigone will be a major contribution to the reclaimed classics.’ Newsland.ie Set in the seventh century BC, I, Antigone purports to be Antigone’s biography of her father, Oedipus, as she attempts to set the record straight on his life and death and restore his reputation. With this astonishing version of Oedipus’ famous demise, Gébler dismantles the polarisation and absolutism of our time. By tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and Jocasta, as well as the peripheral characters of the plays who had a central role in him fulfilling his destiny, Antigone’s ‘biography’ causes us to re-evaluate the extent to which any of us can be entirely blamed for the actions by which we will be defined.
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