Screen LibraryModern and contemporary Irish drama : backgrounds and criticism /
This edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights : W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O{u2019}Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina Carr. It includes prefaces, letters, journal entries, program notes, and inte...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2009] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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| Summary: |
This edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights : W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O{u2019}Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina Carr. It includes prefaces, letters, journal entries, program notes, and interpretative essays for each play. In addition, essays by Lady Gregory, John Eglinton, W.B. Yeats, Frank J. Fay and Colm Tóibín provide an overview of the Irish dramatic literary revival. The future of theater in Ireland is considered in essays by Victor Merriman, Mary Trotter, Lionel Pilkinton and Joan Fitz-Patrick Dean. |
| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Modern Irish drama / edited by John P. Harrington. 1st ed. c1991. |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 641 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-641). |
| ISBN: |
9780393932430 (paperback) : 0393932435 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR8869 |
| CLC: | I562.073 |
| Call Number: | I562.073/M689/2nd ed. |
| Contents: |
The text of the plays. -- Cathleen Ni Houlihan ; The pot of broth / W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory -- At the hawk's well ; Purgatory / W.B. Yeats -- Spreading the news ; The rising of the moon / Lady Gregory -- Riders to the sea ; The playboy of the Western world / J.M. Synge -- John Bull's other island / Bernard Shaw -- Juno and the paycock / Sean O'Casey -- Krapp's last tape / Samuel Beckett -- Translations / Brian Friel -- The weir / Conor McPherson -- By the bog of cats / Marina Carr Backgrounds and criticism. -- The Irish dramatic revival -- On W.B. Yeats -- On Lady Gregory -- On J.M. Synge -- On Bernard Shaw -- On Sean O'Casey -- On Samuel Beckett -- On Brian Friel -- On Conor McPherson -- On Marina Carr -- On theater in Ireland -- Chronology. |