A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama

A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture. Filling a pressing need in the literature, this book includes information on the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres.
Most significantly, Sternlicht discusses the important plays of all the playwrights included and the major themes of modern Irish drama: the struggle for independence, the cruelty of poverty, the pains of emigration and exile, the decline of the Anglo-Irish ascendency, the power of religion, the longing for land, and the familial and gender conflicts of a people in post-colonial transition.

Sanford Sternlicht teaches English at Syracuse University.

Preface
Backgrounds
Early Irish History	p. 3
The Century of Destiny	p. 8
The Literary Tradition	p. 12
The Irish Theater	p. 16
Playwrights and Plays
A Thematic Introduction	p. 29
Lady Gregory	p. 33
William Butler Yeats	p. 46
George Bernard Shaw	p. 64
John Millington Synge	p. 68
Other Early Modern Dramatists	p. 77
Padraic Colum	p. 77
T. C. Murray	p. 79
George Fitzmaurice	p. 81
Lennox Robinson	p. 83
George Shiels	p. 85
Sean O'Casey	p. 88
Along with O'Casey	p. 96
Paul Vincent Carroll	p. 96
Denis Johnston	p. 98
M. J. Molloy	p. 100
Samuel Beckett	p. 102
Brendan Behan	p. 112
Brian Friel	p. 116
Other Contemporary Dramatists	p. 128
Hugh Leonard	p. 128
John B. Keene	p. 129
Eugene McCabe	p. 129
Tom Mac Intyre	p. 130
Thomas Kilroy	p. 131
Tom Murphy	p. 132
Stewart Parker	p. 134
Christina Reid	p. 135
Neil Donnelly	p. 136
Anne Devlin	p. 137
Marie Jones	p. 138
Frank McGuinness	p. 139
Michael Harding	p. 141
Sebastian Barry	p. 141
Niall Williams	p. 142
Donal O'Kelly	p. 143
Vincent Woods	p. 144
Marina Carr	p. 145
Martin McDonagh	p. 146
Selected Critical Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 153
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A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama

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