(UN)SETTLEMENT: POLITICAL PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH PEACE PROCESS
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2010
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| contents | (UN)SETTLEMENT: POLITICAL PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH PEACE PROCESS Mark Phelan Lengua y Literatura DUP post media comedy Tim Loane This essay examines Tim Loane’s political comedies, Caught Red-Handed and To Be Sure, and their critique of the Northern Irish peace process. As “parodies of esteem”, both plays challenge the ultimate electoral victors of the peace process (the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin) as well as critiquing the cant, chicanery and cynicism that have characterised their political rhetoric and the peace process as a whole. This essay argues that Loane’s transformation of these comedic pantomime horses into Trojan ones loaded with a ruthless polemical critique of our ruling political elites is all the more important in the context of a self-censoring media that has stifled dissent and debate by protecting the peace process from inconvenient truths. From these close and contextual readings of Loane’s plays, wider issues relating to the political efficacy of comedy and its canonical relegation below ‘higher forms’ in Irish theatre historiography will also be considered. 2010 artículo científico 2175-8026 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=478348696010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4783 Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies application/pdf Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies (Brasil) Num.58 |
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| spellingShingle | (UN)SETTLEMENT: POLITICAL PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH PEACE PROCESS Mark Phelan Lengua y Literatura DUP post media comedy Tim Loane (UN)SETTLEMENT: POLITICAL PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH PEACE PROCESS Mark Phelan Lengua y Literatura DUP post media comedy Tim Loane This essay examines Tim Loane’s political comedies, Caught Red-Handed and To Be Sure, and their critique of the Northern Irish peace process. As “parodies of esteem”, both plays challenge the ultimate electoral victors of the peace process (the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin) as well as critiquing the cant, chicanery and cynicism that have characterised their political rhetoric and the peace process as a whole. This essay argues that Loane’s transformation of these comedic pantomime horses into Trojan ones loaded with a ruthless polemical critique of our ruling political elites is all the more important in the context of a self-censoring media that has stifled dissent and debate by protecting the peace process from inconvenient truths. From these close and contextual readings of Loane’s plays, wider issues relating to the political efficacy of comedy and its canonical relegation below ‘higher forms’ in Irish theatre historiography will also be considered. 2010 artículo científico 2175-8026 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=478348696010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4783 Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies application/pdf Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies (Brasil) Num.58 |
| title | (UN)SETTLEMENT: POLITICAL PARODY AND THE NORTHERN IRISH PEACE PROCESS |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura DUP post media comedy Tim Loane |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=478348696010 |