A Reader S Guide To Modern Irish Drama

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815605250

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A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book includes information on the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres. Sanford Sternlicht discusses the important plays of all the playwrights included and the major themes of modern Irish drama. A Readers Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture. Professor Sanford Stemlicht wrote this book specifically for Syracuse University Press's Reader's Guides series. As one of only a handful of comprehensive contemporary studies of Irish drama, the book includes the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres. Beginning with essays on twentieth-century Irish history, The Irish Literary Theatre, and the development of the Modem ,Irish Theatre in Dublin, Belfast, Galway and other cities, the guide presents biographies and bibliographies of more than twenty-five major twentieth-century Irish dramatists from Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Synge to O'Casey, Beckett, and Behan; from Friel and McGuinness to Marina Carr and Martin McDonagh. Most significantly, Sternlicht discusses the important plays of all the playwrights included, and the major themes of modem Irish drama-the struggle for independence, the cruelty of poverty, the pains of emigration and exile, the decline of the Anglo-Irish ascendency, the power of religion, the longing for land, and the familial and gender conflicts of a people in transition. Finally, a selected bibliography completes the study.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815651307

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Modern Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty modern Irish playwrights are discussed along with summaries of their major plays and recommendations for further reading.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313038990

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Masterpieces of Modern British and Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

Modern British and Irish dramatic works are among the plays most widely read by students. This volume conveniently introduces 10 major plays by British and Irish dramatists. Each chapter is devoted to a particular play and includes a brief biography, a plot synopsis, a discussion of major themes and characters, an overview of the play's historical background, an analysis of the work's dramatic style, an overview of the play's critical reception, and a list of works for further reading. Modern British and Irish dramatic works are widely enjoyed by general readers and high school students. But because they are rooted in literary Modernism and generally reflect particular historical and cultural concerns, they can also be difficult for students to understand. This volume concisely and conveniently introduces 10 masterpieces of British and Irish drama in an accessible manner.

Author : Mary Ketsin
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1590335902

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Irish Literature by Mary Ketsin Pdf

Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X

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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408132685

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470751473

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A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 by Mary Luckhurst Pdf

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Pub.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015033997563

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A Research Guide to Modern Irish Dramatists by E. H. Mikhail Pdf

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408113462

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

A thorough and insightful study of the work of twenty-five important Irish playwrights.

Author : Roger B. Dooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : PSU:000030837324

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Review Notes and Study Guide to Modern British & Irish Drama by Roger B. Dooley Pdf

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857432695

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International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 by Europa Publications Pdf

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1282960601

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960's to the present, written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the United States, Britain and Germany contributing individual studies to the work of each playwright. Each of the twenty-five chapters provides: a biographical introduction to the playwright and their work; a survey and concise analysis of each of the writer's published plays; a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and the critical reception; and...

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431782

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International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Author : Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501384882

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Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez Pdf

Breaking with linearity – the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world – many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez shows this trend was not a unified nor conscious movement, but rather a series of works arising sporadically in different countries at different times, using a variety of circular structures to express similar concerns and ideas about the world. This study also shows how the renewed understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was anticipated by Nietzsche's critiques of truth, knowledge, language and metaphysics, and especially by his related discussions of nihilism and the eternal recurrence. Starting with an analysis of the theory and genealogy of linear narrative, the author charts the emergence of Nietzsche's idea of eternal return, before then turning to the history of the circular narrative trend. This history is explored from its inception, in the works of August Strindberg, Gertrude Stein and Azorín; through its development in the interwar years, by writers such as Raymond Queneau and Vladimir Nabokov; to its full flowering in the work of authors James Joyce or Samuel Beckett, among others; and its later employment by post-war writers, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Italo Calvino and Maurice Blanchot. Through a series of close readings, the book aims to highlight the various ways in which narrative circularity serves to break with an essentially teleological and theological thinking. Finally, Toribio Vazquez concludes by proposing a new typology of non-linear narratives, which builds on the work of recent narratologists.