Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Unseen Forms of Violence”: J. M. Synge and the Playboy of the Modern World

Chapter 3 Anticipating the Rising: Pedagogy, Sacrifice and Theatre in Padraic Pearse’s Plays

Chapter 4 Framing the Rising: W. B. Yeats’s Calvary and Lady Gregory’s The Story Brought by Brigit

Chapter 5 Saint Joan’s Unheard Voices: G. B. Shaw and the Passion Play

Chapter 6 Re-Directing the Passion Play: Seán O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie and Red Roses for Me

Chapter 7 Reclaiming Robert Emmet: Denis Johnston’s The Old Lady Says “No!”

Chapter 8 Nationalism, Abjection and the Reinvention of Ireland in Behan’s The Hostage

Chapter 9 Intimate Passions: Thomas Kilroy’s The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche and Talbot’s Box

Chapter 11 Torture and Passion: Opened Bodies in Samuel Beckett’s Rough for Radio II , Words and Music and Cascando

Chapter 12 The Seduction of Silence: Ethical Interpellations in W. B. Yeats’s The King’s Threshold , Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and David Lloyd’s The Press