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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      29 January 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511999567
      9780521804004
      9780521008730
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521804000
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Irish Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Irish Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contemporary playwrights Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Frank McGuiness and Sebastian Barry, in addition to emerging playwrights such as Martin McDonagh and Marina Carr. Further to studies of individual playwrights the collection also includes examination of the relationship between the theatre and its political context as this is inflected through its ideology, staging and programming. With a full chronology and bibliography, this collection is an indispensable introduction to one of the world's most vibrant theatre cultures.

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    'Extensive in its breadth and including studies of the major playwrights and their most important works, this book offers an excellent introduction to a major dramatic and theatrical tradition.'

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