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11 of the Best Books and Articles on: Irish Drama

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1.

The Contemporary Drama of Ireland » Read Now
by Ernest A. Boyd. 225 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...other call. The association of the Irish drama with the Literary Revival is...even more alien to the study of Irish drama than those of Calderon, who wrote...Renaissance...
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The Irish Dramatic Movement » Read Now
by Una Ellis-Fermor. 244 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...debate on subjects relating to the Irish drama and to the aesthetics of drama...theatre. I had been lecturing on the Irish drama, taking this play in its turn...developed...
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Plays of Changing Ireland » Read Now
by Curtis Canfield. 481 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...JOHNSTONS PLAYS THE distance the Irish Drama has traveled away from the conventional...There is little doubt that the Irish drama needed the literary...
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More Real Than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (includes "Ghosts in Irish Drama" and "Irish Drama and the Fantastic") » Read Now
by Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha. 272 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

From the ancient texts and medieval illuminated manuscripts to 20th century poetry, painting, drama, stories, and novels, Irish writers and artists have found the fantastic not only congenial but necessary to their art. This collection of fifteen essays focuses on the fantastic in Irish literature...
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From the ancient texts and medieval illuminated manuscripts to 20th century poetry, painting, drama, stories, and novels, Irish writers and artists have found the fantastic not only congenial but necessary to their art. This collection of fifteen essays focuses on the fantastic in Irish literature and the arts, showing how the use of the fantastic mode has allowed Irish writers and artists to express ideas, emotions, and insights not available through the direct imitation of everyday reality. The works of Yeats, Field, Shelley, Synge, Beckett, Swift, Coleridge, and others are examined in incisive chapters written from the point of view of the fantastic.
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Aspects of Modern Drama (includes "Irish Plays of Mysticism and Folk History" and "Irish Plays of the Peasantry") » Read Now
by Frank Wadleigh Chandler. 504 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and the poetic drama. In two chapters--those concerned with the Irish plays--, a national...CHAPTER XII IRISH PLAYS OF THE PEASANTRY...XVI THE POETIC DRAMA 371...to the...
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The Principles of Playmaking: And Other Discussions of the Drama (includes "Irish Plays and Irish Playwrights") » Read Now
by Brander Matthews. 310 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...III On Putting Literature into the Drama 44 IV Three Theorists...the Player 182 XI Irish Plays and Irish Playwrights 196 XII The Conventions of the Music-Drama 214 XIII The...
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Shadows over Ireland, in American Theatre » Read Now
by Fintan O'Toole. 4 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...finally hit the shore. Irish society was still...There wasnt much drama to be wrung out of...national talent for drama was no longer going...the first wave of Irish...
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (includes "Gender, Sexuality, and Englishness in Modern Irish Drama and Film") » Read Now
by Anthony Bradley, Maryann Gialanella Valiulis. 328 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Sexuality, and Englishness in Modern Irish Drama and Film ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD...Cullingford sees a recurrent intertext in Irish drama and film from Boucicault...
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Irish Plays and Playwrights » Read Now
by Cornelius Weygandt. 314 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...character the Abbey Theatre drama is Irish. Reading of life and style are...convention" of that drama. The new Irish drama is more native in its stories...serious efforts...
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook » Read Now
by Bernice Schrank, William W. Demastes. 454 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a...
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Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a critical assessment of the dramatist's work, and extensive bibliographical information. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel » Read Now
by Nicholas Grene. 312 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of...
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The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
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