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Books on: irish playwrights

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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

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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Irish Plays and Playwrights

Book by Cornelius Weygandt; Houghton Mifflin, 1913

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cornelius Weygandts Irish Plays and Playwrights same publishers...that the younger Irish dramatists spend...Unlike most playwrights, Synge seldom...coincidences between playwrights : has not M...instance from the Irish school itself...
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America and Ireland, 1776-1976: The American Identity and the Irish Connection: the Proceedings of the United States Bicentennial Conference of Cumann Merriman, Ennis, August 1976

Book by Con Howard, David Noel Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards; Greenwood Press, 1980

Subjects:

Ireland--Relations--United States--Congresses, Irish Americans--Congresses, United States--Relations--Ireland--Congresses

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1776-1976 The American Identity and the Irish Connection THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED...with the United States--Congresses. 3. Irish Americans--Congresses. I. Doyle, David...PART TWO The Irish Presence 79...

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Journal Articles on: irish playwrights

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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Talking with Ghosts of Irish Playwrights Past: Marina Carrs by the Bog...the dead." (5) Contemporary Irish playwrights are much in debt to their predecessors...learn from these ghosts of Irish playwrights past, borrowing from them and...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...As a result, such English playwrights as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, and such more widely British playwrights as the second-wave Irish dramatists and Samuel Beckett, are left untouched in his work. Frequently, these plays find themselves...
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Grandmothers and Rebel Lovers: Archetypes in Irish-American Women's Poetry

Journal article by Patricia Monaghan; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993

Subjects:

American poetry--Women authors, Irish American women--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...correspondent Frances Fitzgerald Fire in the lake). Among playwrights, theres Ruth MacKenney (My Sister Eileen) and Megan Duffy Terry...Mary Coyle Chase, who wrote Harvey - no surprise to find an Irish-American woman writing about invisible creatures. Theres biographer...
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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.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...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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Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing

Journal article by Phyllis Lassner; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30, 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...representations in a richly contextualized field relating the playwrights attitudes towards Catholicism and Protestantism and his critique...Revolt," though important in its reflections on Bowens Anglo-Irish cultural and political narratives, totally ignores what many...

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Magazine Articles on: irish playwrights

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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...intention was to create a play that looked like a traditional Irish play but which was actually a subversion of the form," she...would have been inconceivable without the work of language playwrights like Len Jenkin, Eric Overmyer and Constance Congdon. Sometimes...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...We Go from Here? Four Playwrights Anticipate the Seismic...transpired to renew the Irish theatre--something it...Theatre, committed to new Irish voices. Yeats invoked...premieres by American playwrights. Nilo Cruz, David Henry...people ask me, "What playwrights do you most admire...
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All Night Long: Joyce's Ulysses, in Irish Rep's Eyes, Is Simpler and Funnier Than You'd Expect

Magazine article by Kerry Reid; American Theatre, Vol. 21, May-June 2004

Subjects:

A Dublin Bloom (Play)--Authorship, Bolger, Dermot--Authorship, Bolger, Dermot--Interviews, Dramatists--Authorship, Dramatists--Interviews, Joyce, James--Interviews, Joyce, James--Works, Playwrights--Authorship, Playwrights--Interviews, Stage adaptations--Authorship, Ulysses (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...cant easily adapt a play into a play," maintains Bolger. The playwrights version of Bloom and Dedaluss visit to a brothel allows him...Working with Matt helped me focus on that theatricality." (Irish Reps past achievements include critically acclaimed productions...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

...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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Is Henry Crazy? or Is It You? Irish and American Artists Update a Pirandellian Puzzle-And Roll with Snags in Communication and Casting

Magazine article by Laura Butchy; American Theatre, Vol. 22, September 2005

Subjects:

Dramatists--Works, Enrico IV--Performances, Kilroy, Thomas--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kilroy, Thomas--Works, Paul, Andrew--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Paul, Andrew--Works, Pirandello, Luigi--Works, Playwrights--Works, Theater--Performances, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Works

Collections: Entire Library

Is Henry Crazy? or Is It You? Irish and American Artists Update a Pirandellian...Andrew Paul, artistic director of Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, "fascinated with...of Henry, an adaptation of Enrico IV by Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy, which runs through...

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Newspaper Articles on: irish playwrights

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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

Subjects:

Synge, J.M.

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

...Long Road-Weary Actors Deflate Irish Playwrights Playboy. by Jack Helbig...Rating: General audiences When Irish playwright J. M. Synges comedy...rough-hewn, unrefined charm of Irish peasants at a time when Irish Nationalists...
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'Dueling Godets' Honor Playwright's Life

Newspaper article by Henry Stuttley; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 20, 2006

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

Dueling Godets Honor Playwrights Life. by Henry Stuttley Byline: Henry Stuttley Daily Herald...Becketts birthday, the Greenman Theater group performed at McNallys Irish Pub in Elmhurst because the theater was closed that day. What makes...
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A Rare Talent Set to Rival the Great Playwrights; Soon the Interview Another New Liverpool Playwriting Talent Has Emerged, as Lew Baxter Discovers

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 31, 2007

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

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

...Talent Set to Rival the Great Playwrights; Soon the Interview Another...at the remarks of well-known Irish actor Brendan Conroy, who declared...Dancing at Lughnasa - plays Irish immigrant Millie. She is struggling...soak up the atmosphere. "The Irish famine had a big impact on...
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VILLAGE PLANS A REEL TRIBUTE; Locals Cash in on Location of Irish-Set Hollywood Hit

Newspaper article by Stephen Maguire; The People (London, England), March 28, 1999

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

...the acclaimed movie draws heavily on the world-famous Irish playwrights upbringing in the North West. Now villagers want to...really loved Donegal and even found some of her long-lost Irish relatives here. Despite being so famous she was so down...
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Monday Books: Irish out of the Reckoning; Famous Irish Writers by Martin Wallace Appletree Press. Pounds 7.99

Newspaper article by Paul Cormicain; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), February 28, 2000

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

...he wrote in French as well as English. As one of the great playwrights, he is included in this book because of his English writings...English writing, while Brian Merriman is only famous for his Irish writings so gets left out. Oliver Goldsmith never realised...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: irish playwrights

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Knowles, James Sheridan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN nolz, 1784 1862, Anglo-Irish dramatist; cousin of Richard Brinsley Sheridan . Although he was one of the leading playwrights of his time, his works are seldom produced today. His chief plays, which are noted for their...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Galsworthy (English), John Millington Synge and Sean OCasey (Irish), and Eugene ONeill , Clifford Odets , and Lillian Hellman...early 20th-century drama was expressionism . Expressionist playwrights tried to convey the dehumanizing aspects of 20th-century technological...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...were not English; Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, OCasey, and Beckett were Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, T. S. Eliot was born an American...cultivate their own distinctive voices. Other novelists and playwrights of the 1950s, often called the angry young men , expressed...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...the romantic comic fantasy of such playwrights as James M. Barrie and Jean Giraudoux ; and the native Irish comedy of J. M. Synge , Lady Gregory...sexual perversion, and murder, of playwrights such as Joe Orton , Harold Pinter...

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