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Books on: irish playwright

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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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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

Book by Nicholas Grene; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Boucicault, Dion--1820-1890--Political And Social Views, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Friel, Brian--Political And Social Views, Political Plays, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--19th Century, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--20th Century, Theater--Political Aspects--Ireland

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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 ...
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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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John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

Book by Maurice Bourgeois; Constable, 1913

Subjects:

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

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...Cornelius Weygandts Irish Plays and Playwrights same publishers...a stylist and playwright. 1 Lastly...He could speak Irish, and his knowledge...coincidences between playwrights : has not M...instance from the Irish school itself...
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Fiction, Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries, Ireland--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries

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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening ...
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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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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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IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS BY...WILLIAM SHARP 250 IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS CHAPTER I THE CELTIC...1902 . There are many other playwrights in Irish than Dr. Hyde, but as no other...

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Journal Articles on: irish playwright

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Shaw's Don Juan in Hell and Schiller's Die Rauber

Journal article by Stanley Weintraub; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 50, 2007

Subjects:

Die Rauber (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Don Juan in Hell (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Drama--Comparative analysis, Plays--Comparative analysis, Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von--Criticism and interpretation, Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von--Works, Shaw, George Bernard (Irish playwright)--Criticism and interpretation, Shaw, George Bernard (Irish playwright)--Works

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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

Subjects:

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

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...United States, scripts by Irish-American playwrights from Dion Boucicault through...popularity of what the Irish-American playwrights presented is affirmed by...through emigration. Younger Irish-American playwrights followed Boucicaults lead...
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'Companions of the Cheshire Cheese': Epistolary Lives of Contemporary Irish Poets

Journal article by Taura S. Napier; Journal of European Studies, 2002

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Criticism and interpretation, Irish poetry--Personalities, Irish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Letters (Correspondence)--Criticism and interpretation, Letters--Criticism and interpretation

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...of its founder, the poet and playwright Seumas OSullivan. Under OSullivan...2) publishing the works of Irish literary and scholarly lights...recently begun to be published in Irish literary journals. Michael...familiar with contemporary Irish literature knows, their prediction...
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The Origins & Development of Irish Republicanism: Peter Neville Surveys the Growth of Republicanism in Ireland Up to the Present Day

Journal article by Peter Neville; History Review, 2001

Subjects:

History--Study and teaching, Ireland--History, Irish Republican Army--History, Republicanism--Ireland

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...opportunity. One of their leaders was Padraig Pearse, a poet and playwright, who called in rather melodramatic terms for `a blood sacrifice...For Pearse resistance, successful or not, was symbolic of the Irish peoples determination not to accept alien rule. Pearse and...
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Telling the Truth: Alice Childress as Theorist and Playwright

Journal article by Olga Dugan; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 81, 1996

Subjects:

African American dramatists--Works, African American theater--Personalities, African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Black theater--Analysis, Childress, Alice--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...black heroines Childress created over the next two decades. The playwrights primary goal was to redress the black image, especially of...admired Sean OCasey and Sholem Aleichem, who "celebrated the poor Irish and the poor Jews, as Paul Laurence Dunbar honored the poor...

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Magazine Articles on: irish playwright

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Brian Friel: A Sociological Appreciation of an Irish Playwright

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

Subjects:

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

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...appreciation of an Irish playwright. by Kieran...suggested that this playwright struck an unexpected...chord. This was an Irish voice that spoke in...be regarded as the Irish Chekhov, a playwright with a definite European...
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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

Subjects:

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

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...If youre a young Irish playwright, come to London...that because Im a playwright from Dublin in...greater London. Irish writers may moan...twenty something playwrights who have recently...so-called school of Irish writing which seemed...
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The Cure for Bernard Shaw

Magazine article by Anthony Daniels; New Criterion, Vol. 26, October 2007

Subjects:

Authors--Appreciation, Authors--Works, Shaw, George Bernard (Irish playwright)--Appreciation, Shaw, George Bernard (Irish playwright)--Works, Writers--Appreciation, Writers--Works

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...him, namely idolatry. He told us that Shaw was the greatest playwright in the English language since Shakespeare, which I thought...championship of Wagner to his vegetarianism; uniquely among playwrights, he was a true philosopher. Our teacher was so charismatic...
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Haunts of the Very Irish

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

Subjects:

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

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...McPherson, the 26-year-old Irish playwright destined to give OCasey...accomplished young Irish playwright is still a newcomer...Valerie meet in a rural Irish pub where they swap...let things out," the playwright explains. Set in an...
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Conquering England: Roy Foster Introduces a New Exhibition on the Irish in London in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Opening at the National Portrait Gallery on March 9th

Magazine article by Roy Foster; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005

Subjects:

Ireland--Emigration and immigration, Irish culture--19th century AD, Irish culture--Exhibitions, London, England--Social aspects, Middle class--19th century AD, Middle class--Social aspects, Middle classes--19th century AD, Middle classes--Social aspects, National Portrait Gallery (London, England)--Exhibitions, United Kingdom--Emigration and immigration

Collections: History, Entire Library

...little later, the actor-manager-playwright Dion Boucicault. In the 1890s...on the scene. Neither used Irish themes (though Shaw would...by. London was allowing the playwright the traditional licence extended to Irish entertainers and commentators...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish playwright

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He's a Rocker at Heart; CULTURE THEATRE Acclaimed Irish Playwright Conor McPherson Is a Born Worrier and a Frustrated Rock Musician, Writes Terry Grimley

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 28, 2007

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

Hes a Rocker at Heart; CULTURE THEATRE Acclaimed Irish Playwright Conor McPherson Is a Born Worrier and a Frustrated...than I expected." You might have imagined a young Irish playwright emerging in the 90s would have written about the...
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Arlington Native Collaborates with Irish Playwright

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 20, 2007

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Arlington Native Collaborates with Irish Playwright. Byline: Eileen O. Daday A theater production...relationships and images, which he then turned over to Irish playwright Martin M. Maguire, to develop into a new play. The...
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Lingering Lessons Storytelling Tradition Fills Work of Irish Playwright .

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 2, 2007

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

...Lingering Lessons Storytelling Tradition Fills Work of Irish Playwright . . by Barbara Vitello Byline: Barbara...Wicker Park, he and his talented cast make magic from Irish playwright Conor McPhersons "The Weir." An homage to Irelands...
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder; "Beauty Is All Very Well at First Sight; but Who Ever Looks at It When It Has Been in the House Three Days?" George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish Playwright, Critic Man and Superman, Act 4 (1903)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 29, 2006

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

...Sight; but Who Ever Looks at It When It Has Been in the House Three Days?" George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish Playwright, Critic Man and Superman, Act 4 (1903). Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr. VERY few are pleased with what they have...
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Kaite's Play Is at the Real Cutting Edge; Indi Boyd Maunsell Meets Playwright Kaite O'Reilly, Whose Experience of Growing Up in Birmingham's Irish Community Is Reflected in Her Play Yard

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 13, 1998

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

...Edge; Indi Boyd Maunsell Meets Playwright Kaite OReilly, Whose Experience of Growing Up in Birminghams Irish Community Is Reflected in Her...listen and enjoy. I am a serious playwright. Im not a comedy writer, but...language, revelling in it - in the Irish tradition from the Abbey Theatre...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish playwright

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Friel, Brian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

FRIEL, BRIAN frel, 1929 , Irish playwright, b. Killyglogher, Northern Ireland...become the most acclaimed contemporary Irish dramatist. Friels family moved to...Translations. Friel has also written of Irish family life, skillfully mingling...
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Carroll, Paul Vincent

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

CARROLL, PAUL VINCENT 1900 1968, Irish playwright. His plays, vigorous commentaries on the conflicts of village...Spoken (1946), and The Wayward Saint (1955). See his Irish Stories and Plays (1958). ____________________ Copyright...
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Shaw, George Bernard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD 1856 1950, Irish playwright and critic. He revolutionized the Victorian stage, then dominated by artificial melodramas, by presenting vigorous dramas of ideas...
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Yeats, W. B

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...William Butler Yeats), 1865 1939, Irish poet and playwright, b. Dublin. The greatest lyric...the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance . Early...poems. He became fascinated by Irish legends and by the occult. His...
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BÖll, Heinrich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...rikh bol, 1917 85, German novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Boll presents a critical, antimilitarist view of modern society...his other notable works are a collection of travel essays, Irish Journal (tr. 1967); the novel Gruppenbild mit Dame (1971...

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