Mapping Irish Theatre

Seamus Heaney once described the ''sense of place'' generated by the early Abbey theatre as the ''imaginative protein'' of later Irish writing. Drawing on theorists of space such as Henri Lefebvre and Yi-Fu Tuan, Mapping Irish Theatre argues that theatre is ''a machine for making place from space''. Concentrating on Irish theatre, the book investigates how this Irish ''sense of place'' was both pr...