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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by Bernice Schrank, William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Dramatists, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Ireland--In Literature--Dictionaries, Theater--Ireland--Dictionaries

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...and Katharine Worth , in The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats...Yeats was the most influential dramatist produced by the Abbey. In a more recent study, Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 1984 , D...significant in the evolution of Irish drama than either Ellis...the exception of Yeats, the dramatists associated with the Abbey...
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John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

Book by Maurice Bourgeois; Constable, 1913

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Dramatists, Irish--20th Century--Biography, Synge, J. M--(John Millington)--1871-1909--Biography, Theater--Ireland--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Symposium, 109 The Irish Dramatic Movement J. Donald Adams , 281 The Irish Dramatic Movement W. B. Yeats , 271 Irish dramatists, 71 , 102 , 106 et seq., 119 , 139 , 173 Some Irish Dramatists, 295 Irish Ecclesiastical Record Dublin , 224 Irish...
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Irish Plays and Playwrights

Book by Cornelius Weygandt; Houghton Mifflin, 1913

Subjects:

Dramatists, Irish, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Theater--Ireland--Dublin

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...working for the nationalization of Irish art, if not an artist himself...and is interested in classes of Irish society that the dramatists of the Abbey Theatre have not...of "The Heather Field," the Irish playwright who had adapted the...
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Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958

Book by Laurence G. Avery, Maxwell Anderson; University of North Carolina Press, 1977

Subjects:

Anderson, Maxwell--1888-1959--Correspondence, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Verse Drama--Authorship

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...Circle, Award to High Tor , acceptance speech for, 296 ; "Dramatists Playbill, A," lv ; "Essence of Tragedy, The," l, 94...Shakespeare," xxxv ; "Incommunicable Literature," xxxvi ; "Irish History in Little," xxxix ; "Journey to Jerusalem," lii...
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Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists

Book by James Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1905

Subjects:

Drama--History And Criticism, Dramatists

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...shudder if you mention its title. It is even rumoured that the Irish dramatist serves his parish--as a meek citizen should--he will...closely observing hu manity, after the manner of all great dramatists, he has only closely studied Bernard Shaw. "Regarded as...

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Blackened Irish and Brownfaced Amerindians: Constructions of American Whiteness in Dion Boucicault's the Octoroon

Journal article by Katy L. Chiles; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 31, 2004

Subjects:

American history, Boucicault, Dion, Dramatists, Theater criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...playwrights responded to increased Irish immigration by projecting an...justification of colonisation: English dramatists therefore indicated Irish inferiority and need for governance...attention focuses on the three Irish plays Boucicault wrote subsequent...
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Sites and Sights: The Iconology of the Subterranean in Late Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Drama

Journal article by Joyce Flynn; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993

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Irish Americans--Literature, Melodrama--19th century, O'Neill, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...use of stage space. But Irish-American dramatists presenting underground...Ireland in steerage. The Irish-American dramatists return again and again...of nineteenth-century Irish-American dramatists simultaneously reminded...
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St. Patrick's Day Celebrations and the Formation of Irish-American Identity, 1845-1875

Journal article by Kenneth Moss; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1995

Subjects:

Ethnicity--Research, Irish Americans--Ethnic identity, Parades--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...toasts to Ireland herself, to Irish "Poets, Orators and Dramatists", to the President of the...Washington."(36) Songs, mostly Irish folk ballads, were then sung...certainly maintained a view of the Irish past and present very much at...
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William Byrd II: Comic Dramatist?

Journal article by Carl R. Dolmetsch; Early American Literature, Vol. 6, 1971

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American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Lord Orrery is zealous for to be his Lieutenant Collonel." 17 Byrd asks Southwell to use his influence ("it being in the Irish Establishment," he points out) to obtain the commission for Brett, whom he describes as "one of the prettyest gentlemen...
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An American in Ireland: The Representation of the American in Brian Friel's Plays

Journal article by Maria Germanou; Comparative Drama, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

American identity--20th century AD, American identity--Analysis, American identity--Observations, American identity--Social aspects, Dramatists--20th century AD, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Friel, Brian--Criticism and interpretation, Friel, Brian--Works, Irish drama--20th century AD, Irish drama--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--20th century AD, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works

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...by Maria Germanou Twentieth-century Irish theater has been traversed by recurrent...those between Catholic and Protestant, Irish and English, North and South, Nationalist...contrasts, crucial to the understanding of Irish identity during the colonial and early...

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Haunts of the Very Irish

Magazine article by Pamela Renner; American Theatre, Vol. 15, July 1998

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Authors, Irish--Works, Dramatists--Works, McPherson, Conor--Works

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...identify McPherson as part of an Irish wave, he expresses skepticism about the notion of Irish drama as a family tree that...Mcphersons formal freedom as a dramatist comes from his experience...pitch black silence of the Irish countryside its easy for...
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Brian Friel: A Sociological Appreciation of an Irish Playwright

Magazine article by Kieran Flanagan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 266, April 1995

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Dramatists--Works, Friel, Brian--Works, Irish--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...part of a foreign country. In Irish dealings, its study conveys...sociological chord. This was an Irish voice that spoke in an accent...unusual to find the reverse, of a dramatist, such as Friel, who imports...about the human condition in an Irish setting, he reminds sociologists...
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If You're a Young Irish Playwright, Come to London. If You Can Put Up with Being Defined by Your Nationality, the Opportunities Are Huge

Magazine article by Conor Mcpherson; New Statesman, Vol. 127, February 20, 1998

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Dramatists--Conduct of life, London, England--Art

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...reviewed. And in London, being Irish has a resonance that being...something about an army, the Irish Republican Army. She said...State of Affairs, British and Irish. This attitude in the Republic...in!" But equally there are dramatists who tackle the conflict head...
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The Voice of Nationism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater

Magazine article by Stephen Watt; Humanities, Vol. 20, January 1999

Subjects:

Drama, Dramatists, History, Ireland, Nationalism

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Voice of Nationism: One Hundred Years of Irish Theater by Stephen Watt The rise of Irish nationalism at the end of the last century has inspired generations of Irish playwrights to draw upon their native traditions and define...
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Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink: Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay Martyr

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, May 2003

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Dramatists, English, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation

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...Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay...Balcombe before she instead chose a young Irish civil servant named Bram Stoker, who was...shades of green, red, and pink: Wilde the Irish rebel, Wilde the subversive socialist...

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* Award-Winning Irish Playwright and Novelist Sebastian Barry Reads from and Sig

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 30, 2011

Subjects:

Dramatists, Playwrights

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

* Award-Winning Irish Playwright and Novelist Sebastian Barry Reads from and Sig. * Award-winning Irish playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry reads from and signs copies of his new work of literary fiction, "On Canaans Side," at 7:30...
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Land of Injustice and Sorrow; THEATRE

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 1, 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

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...in London and rather too many by Irish dramatists. Why does the admirable Tricycle...documentaries and black drama, insist on an Irish emphasis at the expense of writing...political problems further away? Irish drama, rich in its playwrights...
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Archives : Pensioners Left without Food or Heat; STEVEN MOORE Delves into the News Letter Archives and Discovers Some of the Items That Made Headlines on This Date Earlier This Century. These Articles Will Run Daily until the Year 2000

Newspaper article by Steven Moore; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 5, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...initial round of 18 holes in the Irish Open Championship in Portrush...Moses ONeill, an ex holder of the Irish Professional Championship, had...giving a chance to the work of young Irish dramatists whose plays may not be produced...
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WHAT ELSE IS NEW ... Compelling: Andrea Irvine in Terminus

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 8, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in Terminus. Byline: FIONA MOUNTFORD THERES a strong strand of Irish writing in this years Traverse programme, with new work from two of that countrys best contemporary dramatists. Yet whereas Enda Walsh in The New Electric Ballroom takes us...
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Land of the Giants; SAINTS, SCHOLARS AND SPORTS STARS.. YOU'LL FIND THEM IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 12, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to this more recent Northern Irish giant. Banbridges Saints and...presents the best of current Irish writing and includes drama...classic works from our fine dramatists and actors, make time for...the Lyric highlights Northern Irish talent, as does the Marketplace...

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Abbey Theatre

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ABBEY THEATRE Irish theatrical company devoted...in founding (1902) the Irish National Theatre Society...talents as directors and dramatists. In 1904, Annie Horniman...In close association with Irish dramatists, the Abbey also...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...course, stands as the supreme dramatist of the Renaissance period...great 19th-century Russian dramatists: Nikolai Gogol , A. N...Gorky . Many of the Russian dramatists emphasized character and satire...Millington Synge and Sean OCasey (Irish), and Eugene ONeill , Clifford...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Christopher Marlowe , the greatest dramatist of the group. Focusing on...universally regarded as the greatest dramatist and one of the greatest poets...Puritan imaginings. Such dramatists as Sir George Etherege , William...The Early Twentieth Century Irish drama flowered in the early...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...George Bernard Shaw . In the late 1880s the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov began writing his subtle and delicate comedies...playwrights as James M. Barrie and Jean Giraudoux ; and the native Irish comedy of J. M. Synge , Lady Gregory , Sean OCasey , Brendan...unconventional comedy, containing both comic and tragic elements, of dramatists of the theater of the absurd such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel...

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