Cultural Convergence

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Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence - the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnational infrastructures.

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Ondrej Pilný is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. His publications include The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (2016) and Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (2006). Ruud van den Beuken is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He was awarded the 2015 ISTR New Scholars' Prize and his publications include Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940 (2020). Ian R. Walsh is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. His publications include Experimental Irish Theatre: After W.B. Yeats (2012) and The Theatre of Enda Walsh (2015), co-edited with Mary Caulfield.

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