In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that weaves together multiple sources – not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding – to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that comprise the Celtic Revival/Celtic Twilight in the Irish expressive arts.
Before you begin this assignment, consider the following questions. You do not have to answer all of them, but they are an excellent starting point.
- What does “revival” mean (without directly citing a dictionary, please)?
- What does “twilight” mean (without directly citing a dictionary, please)?
- How are the plays, especially, most effective in conveying this sensibility?
- Who was participating in the Celtic Revival/Celtic Twilight? What was their context (class, gender, religious orientation, education, location)?
- Why would Irish playwrights, poets, and others consider a revival of anything when Ireland was on the brink of Independence?
- Why are the arts (performing, visual, literary) important in a revolution?
- What does this movement say about Irish identity at the time?
- What roles do religion, language, land, and colonialism play?
Checklist:
- All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be from before 1920, but articles, books, and films may be more contemporary.
- All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be made by Irish people, but articles, books, and films may be by others.
- Cite at least two poems
- Cite at least one song
- Cite at least one film
- Cite at least three plays
- Cite at least one presentation by Walter, and one presentation by Sean
- Cite at least one peer-reviewed article (not Wikipedia)
- Use one photograph (embed in your essay)
- Use one painting (embed in your essay)
- Include your own ideas
- Include an introduction with a thesis statement, and a conclusion
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