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Nathan Barr edited the blog post Context in the group Irish Studies: 9 years, 8 months ago

The following pages titled ‘Political Melodramas’, ‘Literary Revival’, and ‘Musicals’ are the least conceptually ambitious on this site. They aim to provide a basic historical and literary background for the plays discussed later on. They also offer a vertical route for exploring other pages. For instance, ‘Literary Revival’ leads to analyses…[Read more]
Nathan Barr edited the blog post Identity and Political Melodramas in the group Irish Studies: 9 years, 8 months ago

Popular Irish melodramas from the Victorian and Edwardian periods were formulaic. One-dimensional characters populate a picturesque emerald landscape dotted with ruins and sheep, a landscape deeply engrained in the Irish collective consciousness. A noble yet forgettable hero falls in love with a devoted, self-sacrificing beauty while h…[Read more]