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New Plays from the Abbey Theatre(1st Edition)
1996-1998 (Irish Studies (Syracuse, N.Y.).)
by Judy Friel, Sanford Sternlicht, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Michael P. Harding, Thomas Kilroy, Alex Johnston, Marina Carr, Sanford V. Sternlicht
Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 2001 by Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0723-6, ISBN: 0-8156-0723-7

"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 ..."






New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1993-1995(1st Edition)
(v. 1)
by Christopher Fitz-Simons, Judy Friel, Michael P. Harding, Sanford V. Sternlicht, Niall Williams, Donal O'kelly, Neil Donnelly, Sanford Sternlicht, Editor-Michael Harding, Tom Mac Intyre
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1996 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0345-0, ISBN: 0-8156-0345-2

"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 ..."






New Plays from the Abbey Theatre(Updated)
Volume Three, 1999-2001 (Irish Studies) [Paperback] [Feb 01, 2003] Friel, Judy
by Judy Friel, Sanford V. Sternlicht, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Jimmy Murphy, Hugh Leonard, Frank Mcguinness
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2987-0, ISBN: 0-8156-2987-7

"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 ..."






Selected Plays of Padraic Colum
by Sanford Sternlicht, Padriac Colum, Syracuse University Press
Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2006 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3133-0, ISBN: 0-8156-3133-2

"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 ..."






In Search of Stevie Smith(1st Edition)
by Sanford Sternlicht, Sternlight Sanford
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 1991 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2504-9, ISBN: 0-8156-2504-9

"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."






Selected Short Stories of Padraic Colum(Reprint)
(Irish Studies)
by Padraic Colum, Sanford Sternlicht
Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 1985 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0202-6, ISBN: 0-8156-0202-2

"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 ..."






August Wilson's Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays(1st Edition)
A Reader's Companion
by Sanford Sternlicht
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-900-1, ISBN: 0-89672-900-1

"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 ..."






Heaven's Price
by Sandra Brown, Sanford Sternlicht
Paperback, Published 1983 by Bantam Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-21720-9, ISBN: 0-553-21720-8

"Embracing a life most people only dream about, Blair devoted her days as well as her nights to dancing on Broadway."






U. S. F. Constellation
Yankee Racehorse
by Sanford Sternlicht, Edwin M. Jameson
Paperback, 187 Pages, Published 1982 by Liberty Pub Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-89709-030-8, ISBN: 0-89709-030-6

"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!"






John Webster's Imagery and the Webster Canon
(Salzburg Studies: Jacobean Drama Studies)
by Sanford Sternlicht
Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 1972 by Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-0436-6, ISBN: 0-7734-0436-8

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