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Bibliography

Ruud van den
Beuken
s. xx–xxi

13 publications between 2015 and 2022 indexed
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Works authored

Beuken, Ruud van den, Avant-garde nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1940, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021.

Works edited

Corporaal, Marguérite, and Ruud van den Beuken (eds), A stage of emancipation: change and progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Pilný, Ondřej, Ruud van den Beuken, and Ian R. Walsh (eds), Cultural convergence: the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Corporaal, Marguérite, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken (eds), Irish studies and the dynamics of memory transitions and transformations, Reimagining Ireland, 79, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016.

Contributions to journals

Beuken, Ruud van den, “‘A lament for the Fianna in a time when Ireland shall be changed’: prospective/prescriptive memory and (post-)revolutionary discourse in mythological Gate plays”, Études irlandaises 43:2 (2018): 197–208.
Beuken, Ruud van den, “MacLiammóir’s minstrel and Johnston’s morality: cultural memories of the Easter Rising at the Dublin Gate Theatre”, Irish Studies Review 23:1 (2015): 1–14.  
abstract:
This article explores how Micheál MacLiammóir and Denis Johnston attempted to perform cultural memories of the Easter Rising at the Dublin Gate Theatre and thereby articulated their respective views on a colonial past that had to be reassessed anew, on the one hand, and a postcolonial future that still had to be made possible, on the other. By analysing how these two prominent Gate Theatre playwrights sought to commemorate the Rising through mediated performances, this article argues that the Gate Theatre did not simply serve as a playground for disinterested aestheticists but also created a stylised forum where the perceived strain between Ireland's traumatic history and its uncertain future could be addressed and reconfigured into a meaningful teleology. In doing so, this article attempts to demonstrate that the Gate Theatre served as a cultural counterweight to the Abbey's ostensible hegemony as a theatrical force in Irish identity formation.
abstract:
This article explores how Micheál MacLiammóir and Denis Johnston attempted to perform cultural memories of the Easter Rising at the Dublin Gate Theatre and thereby articulated their respective views on a colonial past that had to be reassessed anew, on the one hand, and a postcolonial future that still had to be made possible, on the other. By analysing how these two prominent Gate Theatre playwrights sought to commemorate the Rising through mediated performances, this article argues that the Gate Theatre did not simply serve as a playground for disinterested aestheticists but also created a stylised forum where the perceived strain between Ireland's traumatic history and its uncertain future could be addressed and reconfigured into a meaningful teleology. In doing so, this article attempts to demonstrate that the Gate Theatre served as a cultural counterweight to the Abbey's ostensible hegemony as a theatrical force in Irish identity formation.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Beuken, Ruud van den, “The old lady says ‘No!’ (1929) by Denis Johnston”, in: Shaun Richards (ed.), Fifty key Irish plays, London: Routledge, 2022. 49–52.
Beuken, Ruud van den, “Youth’s the season–? (1931)”, in: Shaun Richards (ed.), Fifty key Irish plays, London: Routledge, 2022. 53–56.
Beuken, Ruud van den, “‘Something left over from the Eighteenth Century, undergoing a slow process of decay’: the impotence of the Ascendancy in Mary Manning’s Youth’s the season–? (1931)”, in: David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, and Justine Nakase (eds), The golden thread: Irish women playwrights, vol. 1: 1716–1992, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. 185–196.
Pilný, Ondřej, Ruud van den Beuken, and Ian R. Walsh, “Introduction: cultural convergence at Dublin’s Gate Theatre”, in: Ondřej Pilný, Ruud van den Beuken, and Ian R. Walsh (eds), Cultural convergence: the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 1–13.
Beuken, Ruud van den, “‘Ancient Ireland comes to Rathmines’: memory, identity, and diversity in Micheál macLíammóir’s Where stars walk (1940)”, in: David Clare, Des Lally, and Patrick Lonergan (eds), The Gate Theatre, Dublin: inspiration and craft, Dublin, Oxford: Carysfort Press, Peter Lang, 2018. 47–61.
Lally, Des, David Clare, and Ruud van den Beuken, “Appendix A: Gate Theatre chronology (1928-1982): The Edwards-macLíammóir and Longford directorates”, in: David Clare, Des Lally, and Patrick Lonergan (eds), The Gate Theatre, Dublin: inspiration and craft, Dublin, Oxford: Carysfort Press, Peter Lang, 2018. 341–385.
Beuken, Ruud van den, “Remembering the drapier and King Dan: the sectarian legacies of Swift and O’Connell in Edward Longford’s Yahoo (1933) and Ascendancy (1935)”, in: Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken (eds), Irish studies and the dynamics of memory transitions and transformations, 79, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016. 19–39.