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New Plays from the Abbey Theatre(1st Edition)
Volume Three, 1999-2001 (Irish Studies)
by Judy Friel, Sanford V. Sternlicht, Sanford Sternlicht, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Hugh Leonard, Frank Mcguinness, Jimmy Murphy
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2967-2, ISBN: 0-8156-2967-2

"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 ..."

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(1st Edition)
Volume One, 1993-1995 (Irish Studies) (v. 1)
by Michael P. Harding, Tom Mac Intyre, Donal O'kelly, Neil Donnelly, Niall Williams, Sanford Sternlicht, Christopher Fitz-Simons, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Judy Friel, Sanford V. Sternlicht, Sanford Sternlight
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1996 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2699-2, ISBN: 0-8156-2699-1

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 19961998 v 2 Irish Studies Volume Two, 19961998(1st Edition)
by Editor-Judy Friel, Judy Friel, Editor-Sanford Sternlicht, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Sanford V. Sternlicht, Michael P. Harding, Sanford Sternlicht
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2001 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2928-3, ISBN: 0-8156-2928-1

"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 ..."

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."

In Search of Stevie Smith(1st Edition)
by Sanford Sternlicht
Hardcover, 227 Pages, Published 1991 by Syracuse Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2503-2, ISBN: 0-8156-2503-0

"Two interviews with the British poet and novelist accompany essays that discuss her life, fiction, poetry, and writing style"

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 ..."

Selected Poems of Padraic Colum(1st Edition)
(Irish Studies)
by Sanford Sternlicht, Pádraic Colum
Hardcover, 92 Pages, Published 1999 by Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2458-5, ISBN: 0-8156-2458-1

"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 ..."