The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Irish drama /
Contributor(s): Richards, Shaun
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Series: Cambridge companions to literature.Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xiii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521804000; 9780521804004 :; 0521008735 (pbk.).Subject(s): English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century | English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 822.9109417 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Lost Checked out | 13/06/2019 | 0066323 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index.
Plays of (ever) changing Ireland / Shaun Richards -- Late nineteenth-century Irish theatre: before the Abbey - and beyond / Stephen Watt -- The ideology of the Abbey Theatre / Adrian Frazier -- The theatre of William Butler Yeats / Joep Leerssen -- Lady Gregory's Abbey Theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal / James Pethica -- J.M. Synge, 'national' drama and the post-Protestant imagination / Mary C. King -- On the siting of doors and windows: aesthetics, ideology and Irish stage design / Richard Allen Cave -- Oscar Wilde and the politics of style / Neil Sammells -- George Bernard Shaw and Ireland / Gearóid O'Flaherty -- Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy: disillusionment to delusion / Ronan McDonald -- Ireland's 'exiled' women playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr / Cathy Leeney -- Samuel Beckett and the countertradition / John P. Harrington -- Brian Friel's sense of place / Helen Lojek -- The Field Day Theatre Company / Marilynn Richtarik -- Tom Murphy and the children of loss / Nicholas Grene -- Reconstructing history in the Irish history play / Claire Gleitman -- The Abbey Theatre and the Irish state / Lionel Pilkington -- Staging contemporary Ireland: heartsickness and hopes deferred / Vic Merriman -- The revival revised / Brian Singleton.
This collection covers the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas to contemporary Dublin theatre festivals.