"The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theatre, The Abbey. The first play by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, "Sour Grapes", explores the taboos of seminary life including paedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's "The Secret Fall of Co ..."
"A collection of four plays that span Colum’s career: The Land, The Betrayal, and two of his Noh plays, Glendalough and Monasterboice. At the age of twenty-three, Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was one of the founding fathers of the Abbey Theatre. His contribution to the development of Irish drama continued until his voluntary exile to America in 1914. His play, Broken Soil (1903), was the first commercial success at the Abbey, and it estab ..."
"The selected plays show the extraordinary variety of Irish drama today as well as the brilliance of Irish playwrights, both seasoned veterans and those beginning to build reputations on the stages of the world's premier national theatre, The Abbey. The first play by award-winning playwright Michael Harding, Sour Grapes, explores the taboos of seminary life including paedophilia and homosexuality. Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Const ..."
"Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was in the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival along with William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore, AE (George Russell), and John Millington Synge. At the age of twenty-three he was a founding father of the Abbey Players, and he was recognized as one of the most talented young writers of drama, poetry, and short fiction. Unfortunately, Colum quarreled with Yeats and Lady Gregory, and, since he could ..."
"This first volume in a series of drama anthologies invites readers to experience five of the best new plays being produced in 1993-1995 in Ireland's most famous theatre, The Abbey Theatre. This collection includes plays produced at the Abbey within the previous three years. Michael Harding's "Hubert Murray's Widow", his fourth play for theatre, is a surreal nightmare revolving around a killing and a funeral. With a macabre sense of humo ..."
"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
"forty-seven-year-old Charles Smith married a woman thirteen years his junior
and together they began poultry ... Stevie never visited her father or his bride, and
she rejected every effort at reconciliation. ... from an exploited, quiet, nearly
invisible grind at work to an assertive forceful contributor to the London literary
scene."
"This first volume in a series of drama anthologies invites readers to experience five of the best new plays being produced in 1993-1995 in Ireland's most famous theatre, The Abbey Theatre. This collection includes plays produced at the Abbey within the previous three years. Michael Harding's "Hubert Murray's Widow", his fourth play for theatre, is a surreal nightmare revolving around a killing and a funeral. With a macabre sense of humo ..."
"This anthology offers the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. In Hugh Leonard's "Love in the Title", a woman's visit to the Irish countryside leads to a surreal meeting with her own mother as a 30-year-old in 1964 and her grandmother as a 20-year-old in 1922. The frank exchanges that mark this meeting allow the women to remain in and represent their times, yet still communicate with each other. Frank McGuinness's "Dolly West's ..."
The Tenement Saga(1st Edition) The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers by SanfordSternlicht Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2004 by Terrace Books ISBN-13: 978-0-274-72508-3, ISBN: 0-274-72508-8
"New in The Poet's Circuits are some of the forepieces and afterpieces he wrote to
bracket the circuits. Most significant is the first forepiece, a long autobiographical
narrative about youthful self-discovery, artistic maturation, ... The Poet's Circuit
was well received by yet another generation of critics and readers coming freshly
to Colum's work, ... turn-of-the-century Ireland never left Colum, in the same way
that Joyce's Dub ..."
"An in-depth study of the eight major novels by renowned Jewish-American writer, Chaim Potok."
R.F. Delderfield (Twayne's English Authors Series) by SanfordSternlicht Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1988 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6967-8, ISBN: 0-8057-6967-6
"Clean copy - no writing in the book. Light foxing with some discoloration on edges and top. Normal shelf and edge wear from handling. Sold binding. Satisfaction guaranteed!"
"A short literary guide to one of this country’s greatest African American dramatists, August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion will serve a wide range of students, teachers, theater professionals, and theater audiences. Beginning with an account of August Wilson’s life, from his impoverished childhood in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to achieving national acclaim, the book introduces the ten-p ..."
Modern Irish Drama W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Second Edition by SanfordSternlicht 186 Pages, Published 2010 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5130-7, ISBN: 0-8156-5130-9
"W.B. Yeats to Marina Carr Sanford Sternlicht ... Outstanding among these
dramatists were Padraic Colum, T. C. Murray, George Fitzmaurice, Lennox
Robinson, and George Shiels. Of these early writers, Padraic Colum was the one
who seemed most destined for greatness and perhaps literary immortality.
PADRAIC COLUM (1881–1972) Padraic Colum liked to say that of all the Irish
playwrights of his time, he was the only one who was Roman Cath ..."