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Suburban Sensibilities in Contemporary Plays Set in Dublin

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This chapter surveys contemporary Irish plays set in urban and suburban Dublin during the Celtic Tiger and Post-Celtic Tiger periods. It analyses how a broad range of Irish dramatists have mapped the profound changes that this new economic paradigm brought about, and explores, in particular, representations of class and of inter-class relationships in contemporary Irish theatre. It also posits that the formation of identities through the interface of the material, personal and sexual relationships is a recurrent theme of Irish suburban writing.

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  1. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Eamonn Jordan

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  1. Carlow College, St. Patrick’s, Carlow, Ireland

    Eoghan Smith

  2. Carlow College, St. Patrick’s, Carlow, Ireland

    Simon Workman

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Jordan, E. (2018). Suburban Sensibilities in Contemporary Plays Set in Dublin. In: Smith, E., Workman, S. (eds) Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96427-0_9

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