"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Stevie Smith(1st Edition) (Twayne's English Authors Series) by SanfordV. Sternlicht Hardcover, 117 Pages, Published 1990 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6990-6, ISBN: 0-8057-6990-0
"Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks―from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of America ..."
"The recent A&E production of the adventures of Horatio Hornblower makes this newly revised edition of Sanford Sternlicht's full-length biographical and critical study of G. S. Forester and the Hornblower Saga that much more important. The book focuses on the writing, character models, historical background, and nautical veracity of the novels and stories that created for Forester a world-wide readership.Sternlicht includes little-known ..."
"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 Iris ..."
Stephen Spender (Twayne's English Authors Series) by SanfordV. Sternlicht Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 1992 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-7009-4, ISBN: 0-8057-7009-7
""Stephen Spender is the last of the great British poets of the "Thirties". This group, lead"sic" by W H. Auden, used their art as an expression of political sympathy and solidarity with the oppressed and impoverished. Now spanning more than five decades, Spender's work--including The Still Centre and Collected Poems--has earned him both popular praise and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Although first a poet, Spender has made landmar ..."
"Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 139 pages; Description: x, 139 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 131-132. Subjects: Oregon (Battleship) ."
John Masefield by SanfordV. Sternlicht Hardcover, 159 Pages, Published 1977 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6678-3, ISBN: 0-8057-6678-2
Modern Irish Drama(2nd Edition) W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Second Edition (Irish Studies) by SanfordV. Sternlicht Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 2010 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3245-0, ISBN: 0-8156-3245-2
"Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough the introduction to recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty modern ..."
"Beginning with its antecedents in the melodrama and farces of the Victorian era, the subject of his latest Reader's Guide continues the discussion of the maturation of British drama into a theater of ideas and on to the vital feminist drama that is currently energizing the present London theater. This book will be a useful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain's great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, fo ..."
"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 ..."
"Since it was written nearly 50 years ago, "Night "(1958) has changed world perception of the Holocaust experience. Wiesel's oeuvre, including Holocaust narratives such as "Dawn" (1961), novels, essays, tales, and plays, has also altered the critical and aesthetic landscape through which we view literature, placing themes of religious identity, hope, survival, devotion to family, and humanity ahead of distinctions of fiction and nonficti ..."
All Things Herriot(1st Edition) James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom by SanfordV. Sternlicht Hardcover, 174 Pages, Published 1995 by Syrcause University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0322-1, ISBN: 0-8156-0322-3
"This work is partly a biography of the famous writer of veterinary tales, and partly a literary and cultural study. The author examines Herriot's life and career in the context of the social, cultural and historical fabric of the first half of the 20th century."
"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 ..."
All Things Herriot(1st Edition) James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom by SanfordV. Sternlicht Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 1999 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0611-6, ISBN: 0-8156-0611-7
"... a possible charge of error, and, even more significantly, would it not also allow
the possibility of further crafting of events, approaching the fictive, for the
purposes of art, style, moralizing, symbolizing, and other purposes? An
interesting example of this tempting process is Siegfried Sassoon's
autobiographical trilogy of novels: The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (
1937). In the three novels, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting ..."
""A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama" provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture. As a comprehensive contemporary study of Irish Drama, the book includes the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid and Lyric Theatres. Beginning with essays on 20th-century Irish history, The Irish Literary Theatre and the development of the Modern Irish Theatre in D ..."
"Jewish Americans have produced some of the most imaginative, provocative, and widely read literary works of the twentieth century. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten of the most significant works of Jewish American literarure. An introductory chapter discusses the historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of Jewish American literature. This is followed by chapters on ten major works by Abra ..."
"Modern British and Irish dramatic works are among the plays most widely read by students. This volume conveniently introduces 10 major plays by British and Irish dramatists. Each chapter is devoted to a particular play and includes a brief biography, a plot synopsis, a discussion of major themes and characters, an overview of the play's historical background, an analysis of the work's dramatic style, an overview of the play's critical r ..."