"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 ..."
"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 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 ..."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
All Things Herriot(1stEdition) 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
"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."
Un Spectacle Dans Un Fauteuil(1stEdition) (Paperback) by Alfred De Musset Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2018 by Wentworth Press, N/A ISBN-13: 978-0-274-72508-3, ISBN: 0-274-72508-8
All Things Herriot(1stEdition) James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom by Sanford V. 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 ..."
Stevie Smith(1stEdition) (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
". with dustjacket, 1990 clean copy"
C.S. Forester(1stEdition) (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
"Book by Sternlicht, Sanford V."
Crossing Highbridge(1stEdition) A Memoir of Irish America (Irish Studies) by Maureen Waters Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2001 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0682-6, ISBN: 0-8156-0682-6
"The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism an ..."