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  • The History Play

    From Early Modern Drama to the Present

    by Professor Nicholas Grene, Mr Simon Shepherd ...
    Series series Forms of Drama
    Traversing 400 years of drama, this book examines the history play as a distinctive form that has its origins in the Early Modern period and which evolves in each subsequent period according to the segment of history being dramatized and the changing conceptions of the state.Much has been written on Shakespeare's history plays but very little on the overall form and whether it is distinguished by ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Interpreting Synge

    Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000

    Edited by Nicholas Grene ...
    John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemporaries Yeats and Joyce and his outstanding successor Beckett have attracted whole industries of scholarly attention, Synge, by reason of his short life and limited output, has been relegated to the unconsidered ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Synge

    Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000

    Edited by Nicholas Grene ...
    John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemporaries Yeats and Joyce and his outstanding successor Beckett have attracted whole industries of scholarly attention, Synge, by reason of his short life and limited output, has been relegated to the unconsidered ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nicholas Grene ...
    Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Enda Walsh turned against the tradition of lyrical eloquence with a harsh and broken dramatic language. Companies such as Blue Raincoat, the Corn Exchange, and Pan Pan ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Farming in Modern Irish Literature

    by Nicholas Grene ...
    This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Theatre of Tom Murphy

    Playwright Adventurer

    by Professor Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. This is the first full scale academic study devoted to his ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Home on the Stage

    Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama

    by Nicholas Grene ...
    As a serious drama set in an ordinary middle-class home, Ibsen's A Doll's House established a new politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene traces the changing forms of the home on the stage through nine of the greatest of modern plays and playwrights. From Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard through to Williams' A ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

    Edited by Nicholas Grene, Chris Morash ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Interactions

    Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007

    by Lilian Chambers ...
    Series Book 216 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland’s most important cultural events, bringing countless events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre companies and artists. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Festival ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Irish Drama

    Local and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan ...
    Series Book 545 - Carysfort Press Ltd.
    Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Essays discuss some of Ireland’s major theatre ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity

    by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones ...
    Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these representations of Ireland and the fluid nature of cultural identity, especially during a period of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

    Edited by Fintan O'Toole ...
    100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Ireland's creative output from the revolutionary period until today. The story that emerges through these 100 works is not one of artists gradually finding their place of honour in the republic. Especially in the visual arts it is, on the contrary, a story of never ... Read more

    $32.99 USD