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Uses of Gaelic Folk Traditions in Selected Plays by W.B.Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
Laurincová, Alžběta ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
1 Summary It is the various aspects of the traditional Irish narrative - that is of a mythology or a folktale - such as old traditions of the peoples and various motifs which can be identified as the traits of the Irish literary canon that bear the greatest importance with regard to the national heritage of the Irish. It is important to focus upon that issue and analyze it more profoundly through the works of the earliest innovators in the genre. With regard to that, it must be said that the most striking significance can definitely be granted to the first representatives of the genre of mythology or a folktale who actively took part in the process called "Celtic" or "Gaelic Renaissance," that means to William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and Lady Augusta Gregory. In the thesis their works are analyzed closely and the traditional motifs and other literary means of representing the national heritage of the Irish are revealed. In this respect, the following works of theirs are in question: Deirdre by W. B. Yeats, Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge and a chapter from Cuchulain of Muirthemne, "Fate of the Sons of Usnach," by Lady Gregory. Before the actual analysis of the concrete works several key terms are explained as well, to enable the reader to recognize the context and to acquaint themselves...
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The Role of Gender in Selected Irish Plays
Pichrtová, Lenka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the turbulent changes within the Irish society affected the face of modern Irish drama. Ireland, originally a rural country bound by religious dogmas and its own colonial past, underwent a considerable amount of development in the latter half of the 20th century; it was predominantly manifested through an increased Celtic Tiger economic prosperity and decreasing influence of the Catholic Church. The central interest of Irish culture has always been the effort to define a unifying national metanarrative and identity. In the beginning of the 20th century this desire was motivated by a struggle to establish a vital opposition between Ireland and Great Britain and definitely renounce its depreciating status of a former colony. However, in the second half of the 20th century the discrepancy between the nationalist ideology driven idea of Irish identity (whose value has always been questionable to say the least) and its modern reality became unbridgeable. The introduction of this thesis is dedicated to summarizing the changes within the Irish society in the course of the 20th century. A brief characterization of this turbulent development should justify the urge of more recent artists to re-formulate the Irish national metanarrative to suit the 20th century...
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