{"id":37,"date":"2016-04-03T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:12:28","slug":"second-essay-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/second-essay-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Essay Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that combines multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that comprise the challenging times in Ireland\u2019s early-to-mid 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>Before you begin this assignment, consider the following questions and statements. You do not have to answer all of them, but they are an excellent starting point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theatre of the Absurd arose at a particular time in history (why?), and Samuel Beckett\u2019s works are considered among the genre\u2019s most important.<\/li>\n<li>Brendan Behan\u2019s plays continue in the vein of Oscar Wilde\u2019s in that they play with contradictions and paradoxes, and feature people in jail.<\/li>\n<li>What was \u201cchallenging\u201d about the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century in Ireland?<\/li>\n<li>In a post-Independence Ireland, how does one build a new nation?<\/li>\n<li>How did Sean O\u2019Casey\u2019s <em>urban<\/em> \u201cDublin plays\u201d foreshadow Beckett\u2019s work?<\/li>\n<li>How do Irish people perceive their history in Beckett, O\u2019Casey, and Behan?<\/li>\n<li>What is Irish about these plays, and in their characters?<\/li>\n<li>Who is missing from these works in the plays, songs, poems, etc.?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Checklist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be from between 1890 and 1960, but articles, books, and films may be more contemporary.<\/li>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be made by Irish people, but articles, books, and films may be by others.<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least two poems<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one song<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one film<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least three plays<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one presentation by Walter, and one presentation by Sean<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one peer-reviewed article (<em>not<\/em> Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li>Use one photograph (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Use one painting (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Include your own ideas<\/li>\n<li>Include an introduction with a thesis statement, and a conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that combines multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/second-essay-assignment\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}