Masterpieces Of Modern British And Irish Drama

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : England
ISBN : 1782686185

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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 : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408198629

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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 : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313082320

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Masterpieces of Jewish American Literature by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

Jewish Americans have produced some of the most imaginative, provocative, and widely read literary works of the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten of the most significant works of Jewish American literarure. An introductory chapter discusses the historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of Jewish American literature. This is followed by chapters on ten major works by Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold, Henry Roth, Meyer Levin, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Chiam Potok, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick. Each chapter provides a biography, a plot summary, a discussion of character development, an analysis of themes, an examination of narrative style, an exploration of historical context, and suggestions for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. These works reflect the hopes and dreams of Jewish Americans, as well as their challenges and troubles. These works help students understand the cultural and historical events central to Jewish Americans in the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten masterpieces of Jewish American literature.

Author : Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693271

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Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts by Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller Pdf

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs. Authoritative, trusted, and timely, Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts: Sixth Edition introduces new librarians to the breadth of humanities collections, experienced librarians to the nature of humanities scholarship, and the scholars themselves to a wealth of information they might otherwise have missed. This new version of a classic resource—the first update in over a decade—has been refreshed to account for the myriad of digital resources that have rewritten the rules of the reference and research world, and been expanded to include significantly increased coverage of world literature and languages. This book is invaluable for a wide variety of users: librarians in academic, public, school, and special library settings; researchers in religion, philosophy, literature, and the performing and visual arts; graduate students in library and information science; and teachers and students in humanities, the arts, and interdisciplinary degree programs.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Gloria McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000413977

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class by Gloria McMillan Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, gender and queer studies, critical race theory, quantitative and scientific methods, and transnational perspectives in literary analysis. Utilizing these new methods and interdisciplinary maps from field-defining essayists, students will become aware of ways to bring these elusive texts into their own writing as one of the parallel perspectives through which to view literature. This volume will provide students with an insight into the history of the intersections of class, theory of class and invisibility in literature, and new trends in exploring class in literature. These multidimensional approaches to literature will be a crucial resource for undergraduate and graduate students becoming familiar with class analysis, and will offer seasoned scholars the most significant critical approaches in class studies.

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Alicia Tycer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441165220

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Caryl Churchill's Top Girls by Alicia Tycer Pdf

Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Top Girls is one of Churchill's most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349227624

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British and Irish Drama since 1960 by James Acheson Pdf

The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and Irish drama of our time.

Author : John P. Harrington
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393960633

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Modern Irish Drama by John P. Harrington Pdf

Contains twelve plays by Irish authors W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel, accompanied by nearly fifty background and criticism texts on the works presented.

Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English drama
ISBN : LCCN:66023477

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Masterpieces of the Modern Irish Theatre by Robert Willoughby Corrigan Pdf

Author : Haidar Kareem Al-Aabedi
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783832534639

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Equivocation in the Theatre of the Absurd by Haidar Kareem Al-Aabedi Pdf

This book is the first attempt made to analyse the equivocal language of the Absurd Theatre via pure linguistic models carefully employed and illustrated by a wide range of significant examples, questions, and discussions. It provides the multiple tools necessary for understanding this language from various perspectives. Dr. Haidar K. Al-Abedi was Lecturer in English at University of Baghdad, Al-Muthana University, and Al-Israa University College. ``Haidar has to be complimented at the outset for selecting a very interesting topic . . . It is not surprising that a person from Iraq – and the ravages the country is sadly facing these days – is interested in an area which has its significant socio-cultural origin in the ravages of the World War II. The scope of the research also effectively covers the entire school of the British exponents of the Absurd Theatre. In fact, the first chapter discusses the central keyword – equivocation – in scholarly detail. There is an interesting discussion about the various types of equivocation from chapter two to five quite elaborately conducted by the researcher.'' Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, Saurashtra University, India ``This book is an elaborate analysis of a number of plays written by different dramatists. By elucidating the equivocal verbal and non-verbal communication used by characters, the book addresses a wide range of social, religious, cultural, and political themes and issues which appeal to its audience/readers and are involved in constructing meaning through its peculiar use of language.'' Dr. Adel Saleh, Wasit University, Iraq

Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1972-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349016273

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A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama 1899–1970 by E.H. Mikhail Pdf