Roger Casement in the Twenty-first Century: The public and private faces of a multi-media Irish hero

AUTOR(ES)

Nunez, Domingos; Harris, Peter James

FONTE

Ilha Desterro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2020-08

RESUMO

Abstract: Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916) was a diplomat in the British Colonial Service and an Irish nationalist who was hanged for high treason in London in 1916. The first part of this article offers a critical overview of the material that has been published about Casement's humanitarian work in the Congo and the Peruvian Amazon and his trial in London, including biographies and editions of his own journals, particularly the so-called Black Diaries, as well as the various dramatisations of this material for the stage and other media, concentrating on those produced in the twenty-first century. The second part of the article consists of the playwright’s first-person account of the writing of As Duas Mortes de Roger Casement (subsequently translated into English as The Two Deaths of Roger Casement), which received its premiere in São Paulo in 2016, commenting on the play’s relationship to its sources and the decisions that were taken in the creative process.

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