Hélène Lecossois. Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J.M. Synge

Abstract

Building on the insights of performance studies, Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J.M. Synge offers a fresh examination of Synge’s plays, exploring them in relation to embodied cultural practices and material culture to reveal how they are at once both indicative of and resistant to the commodity culture of capitalist modernity.