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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 ..."

C. S. Forester and the Hornblower Saga, Revised Edition(Updated)
by Sanford V. Sternlicht
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1999 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0621-5, ISBN: 0-8156-0621-4

"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 ..."