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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Shiels: The Enigmatic Playwright". Irish Renaissance Annual 4...Fermor, Una. The Irish Dramatic Movement . London...George Shiels: A Playwright at Work". Threshold...Malone, Andrew E. Irish Theatre . London: Benjamin...
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Irish Plays and Playwrights

Book by Cornelius Weygandt; Houghton Mifflin, 1913

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and is interested in classes of Irish society that the dramatists of the...production of "The Heather Field," the Irish playwright who had adapted the modes of Ibsen to the presentation of the life of Irish landlords and bourgeois politicians...
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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

...Playwrights Chas. Tennyson , 142 , 289 Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt , ix, 270 , 273...285 , 286 , 288 , 296 , 298 Two Irish Plays from the Gaelic-Originals, 257 An Irish Playwright, 281 Some Irish Poetry, 275 Irish...
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To the Golden Door: The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America

Book by George W. Potter; Little, Brown, 1960

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Famines--Ireland--History--19th Century, Ireland--Economic Conditions, Ireland--Emigration And Immigration, Irish--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Irish historical drama brought the Irish hero-king to the American stage...by James Sheridan Knowles , the Irish playwright. In the following year the New...two more plays built around the Irish king, Brian the Brave and Ireland...
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...firsthand knowledge of the playwright. Paul Doyle provides a useful...permanent place in contemporary Irish and English drama" 108...Carroll in the context of the Irish Literary Renaissance and remarks...Carroll has few peers among Irish playwrights in portraying the Irish clergy...

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Journal Articles on: irish playwright

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Talking with Ghosts of Irish Playwrights Past: Marina Carr's by the Bog of Cats ..

Journal article by Richard Russell; Comparative Drama, Vol. 40, 2006

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By the Bog of Cats (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews

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...this extraordinary playwrights great talent. On...them. As her fellow Irish playwright Frank McGuinness observed...5) Contemporary Irish playwrights are much in debt to...from these ghosts of Irish playwrights past...
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Joan Templeton. Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright

Journal article by Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr.; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 81, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Playwright (Critical work)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Munchs Ibsen: A Painters Visions of a Playwright. Seattle: u Washington v, 2008...by his complex relationships to other playwrights such as Bjornson, Strindberg, Heiberg...of-the-Century Design Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993 155-68), the...
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Michael Patterson. Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

Journal article by Craig N. Owens; Comparative Drama, Vol. 39, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights. by Craig N. Owens Michael...discussions of individual plays and playwrights are likely to offer. It seems...In selecting the plays and playwrights for description and discussion...playwrights as the second-wave Irish dramatists and Samuel Beckett...
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A Driving Image of Revolution: The Irish Harp and Its Utopian Space in the Eighteenth Century

Journal article by Mary Louise O'Donnell; Utopian Studies, Vol. 21, 2010

Subjects:

Bloch, Ernst, Harp--History, Harp--Political aspects, Harps--History, Harps--Political aspects, Irish Rebellion, 1798, National identity, Utopias

Collections: History, Entire Library

...metaphorical employment of the Irish harp to represent Ireland in...English Renaissance poet and playwright Sir John Davies wrote an account...Order; The strings of this Irish Harp, which the Civil Magistrate...image of "fingering" the Irish harp, that is, controlling...
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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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...United States, scripts by Irish-American playwrights from Dion Boucicault through...popularity of what the Irish-American playwrights presented is affirmed...through emigration. Younger Irish-American playwrights followed Boucicaults lead...

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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

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

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...suggested that this playwright struck an unexpected...chord. This was an Irish voice that spoke in...think of few other playwrights who could carry easily...human condition in an Irish setting, he reminds...are few contemporary playwrights who have five major...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

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

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If youre a young Irish playwright, come...that because Im a playwright from Dublin in my...of greater London. Irish writers may moan about...stream of unknown playwrights. Faced with the struggle...So overall your new playwright in London is likely...the twenty something playwrights who have recently...called school of Irish writing which seemed...
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A Beacon for Writers: What's Wendy C. Goldberg Up to at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference?

Magazine article by Jason Grote; American Theatre, Vol. 23, November 2006

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Dramatists--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Playwrights--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Playwriting--Conferences, meetings and seminars

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...Theater Center itself, the Playwrights Conference is the earliest...educational programs. The Playwrights Conference remains a cornerstone...unusual--todays young playwright is as likely to be as conversant...looked like a traditional Irish play but which was actually...without the work of language playwrights like Len Jenkin, Eric Overmyer...
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Mother and Child Reunion: Lesbian Mom and Playwright Kate Moira Ryan Talks about Transforming Dorothy Allison's Cavedweller from Page to Stage

Magazine article by Gerard Raymond; The Advocate, May 13, 2003

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Allison, Dorothy--Works, Cavedweller (Play), Dramatists, English, Dramatists--Works, Playwrights--Works, Ryan, Kate Moira--Works, Stage adaptations

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...and Child Reunion: Lesbian Mom and Playwright Kate Moira Ryan Talks about Transforming...falling in love, at New York Citys Young Playwrights Festival. That night her father, a strict Irish Catholic, drove home without a word...performance--stranding the young playwright and her mother, who had to take the...
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Where Do We Go from Here? Four Playwrights Anticipate the Seismic Shifts of the New Century

Magazine article by Mark Bly; American Theatre, Vol. 24, April 2007

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Dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theater--Forecasts and trends

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...transpired to renew the Irish theatre--something it...Theatre, committed to new Irish voices. Yeats invoked the...to premieres by American playwrights. Nilo Cruz, David Henry...challenge facing you as a playwright in the 21st century? CHARLES...cherry-picking plays from playwrights that they believe may be successful. For a playwright to grow, he or she needs...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish playwright

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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

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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...
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Enter, Stage Left, the Irish Playwright Who Changed the World. How Theatre Was Revolutionsed by the Author of the Colleen Bawn

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 14, 2010

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

Enter, Stage Left, the Irish Playwright Who Changed the World. How Theatre...footsteps of one of the most successful Irish actors and writers ever. It was...Darley, was a scion of a well-known Irish Protestant family, related to the...
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Gone Too Long Road-Weary Actors Deflate Irish Playwright's 'Playboy'

Newspaper article by Jack Helbig; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 3, 2004

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Synge, J.M.

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

...Long Road-Weary Actors Deflate Irish Playwrights Playboy. by Jack Helbig Byline...Rating: General audiences When Irish playwright J. M. Synges comedy "Playboy...rough-hewn, unrefined charm of Irish peasants at a time when Irish...
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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Heart; CULTURE THEATRE Acclaimed Irish Playwright Conor McPherson Is a Born Worrier...satisfied with being the outstanding Irish dramatist of his generation. The...You might have imagined a young Irish playwright emerging in the 90s would...
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Arlington Native Collaborates with Irish Playwright

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

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

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...

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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...
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Shaw, George Bernard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, 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 Life...poems. He became fascinated by Irish legends and by the occult. His...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...John Dryden began as a playwright but became the foremost...OCasey, and Beckett were Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh...Other novelists and playwrights of the 1950s, often...Dylan Thomas and the Irish expatriate novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett . Thomass...and Seamus Heaney , an Irish poet who is hailed for...

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