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Norton Critical Editions Ser.: Modern Irish Drama by John P. Harrington (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393960633

ISBN-139780393960631

eBay Product ID (ePID)130708

Product Key Features

Number of Pages592 Pages

Publication NameModern Irish Drama

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDrama, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn P. Harrington

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama

SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight19.6 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN90-038999

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal822/.910809415

SynopsisThe texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions. Backgrounds and Criticism contains almost fifty texts relevant to the twelve plays represented. Included are prefaces by the authors, reports by spectators on original productions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances, and recent critical assessments by American, British, and Irish scholars. From its collection of documents relevant to the origin of the Irish Literary Revival in the midst of Ireland's republican revolution to the recent formation of the Field Day Company in Northern Ireland, Modern Irish Drama charts the rise and development of one of the most powerful national dramas of the twentieth century. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., This Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by eight major Irish playwrights: Cathleen Ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, and Purgatory by W. B. Yeats; Spreading the News and The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory; Riders to the Sea and Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge; John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw; Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey; The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan; Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; and Translations by Brian Friel., The texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions. "Backgrounds and Criticism" contains almost fifty texts relevant to the twelve plays represented. Included are prefaces by the authors, reports by spectators on original productions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances, and recent critical assessments by American, British, and Irish scholars. From its collection of documents relevant to the origin of the Irish Literary Revival in the midst of Ireland's republican revolution to the recent formation of the Field Day Company in Northern Ireland, Modern Irish Drama charts the rise and development of one of the most powerful national dramas of the twentieth century. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., Modern Irish Drama reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures and literary allusions., This Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by eight major Irish playwrights: Cathleen Ni Houlihan , On Baile's Strand , and Purgatory by W. B. Yeats; Spreading the News and The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory; Riders to the Sea and Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge; John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw; Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey; The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan; Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; and Translations by Brian Friel.

LC Classification NumberPR8869.M63 1991