"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
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
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Chaim Potok A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) by Sternlicht, Sanford Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2000 by Greenwood ISBN-13: 978-0-274-96460-4, ISBN: 0-274-96460-0
John Galsworthy (Twayne's English Authors Series) by Sanford V. Sternlicht Hardcover, 142 Pages, Published 1987 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6947-0, ISBN: 0-8057-6947-1
Stevie Smith(1st Edition) (Twayne's English Authors Series) by Sanford V. Sternlicht Hardcover, 117 Pages, Published 1990 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6990-6, ISBN: 0-8057-6990-0
All Things Herriot(1st Edition) James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom by Sanford V. Sternlicht Hardcover, 174 Pages, Published 1995 by Syrcause University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0322-1, ISBN: 0-8156-0322-3
C.S. Forester(1st Edition) (Twayne's English Authors Series ; Teas 320) by Sanford V. Sternlicht Hardcover, 177 Pages, Published 1981 by Twayne Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6810-7, ISBN: 0-8057-6810-6