About this title: "Modern Irish Drama" reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures and literary allusions. The "Backgrounds and Criticism " section contains almost 50 texts relevant to each of the 12 plays represented. Included are prefaces by authors, reports by spectators on the original productions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances, and recent critical ...
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Description: Fine. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are nice and clean. Minor shelfwear/small crease on tips. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: First Edition {Fourth Printing}
Binding: Pictorial Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780393960631ISBN:0393960633
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. "This Norton Critical Edition of MODERN IRISH DRAMA reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. These texts are fully annotated with explanatory notes on Angle-Irish usage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions. " This book has 577 pages. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Edition: Annotated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780393960631ISBN:0393960633
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 577 p. Norton Critical Editions. Audience: General/trade. Publication Date: Dec 1991, Series: Norton Critical Editions Series, Format: Paperback, Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc. Ex-library book with usualy marks and stickers. Pages bright and crisp, covers shinny, no highlighting or underlining. Satisfaction guaranteed. Thank you for your interest. WE SHIP IN 24 HRS IN BUBBLE MAILER. b4 read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 1991-03-17
ISBN-13:9780393960631ISBN:0393960633
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Clean book with light bends in spine from reading and may have a bookstore stamp inside the cover. Quick response! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 1991-03-17
ISBN-13:9780393960631ISBN:0393960633
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Description: Good. 0393960633 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780393960631ISBN:0393960633
Description: This Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by eight major Irish playwrights: Cathleen Ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, and Purgatory by W. B. Yeats; Spreading the News and The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory; Riders to... read more
Description: Very good. The complete texts of twelve plays by W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel; with explanatory notes, backgrounds, criticism, chronology, and selected bibliography. read more
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"As a collection of Modern Irish plays this is pretty good (although I will never understand why Yeats dabbled in drama...why, why, why?) and the articles provide interesting context. The footnotes are not very good, though - if you know anything about Irish history they are a waste of ink, and they don't tell you anything but the most basic information on any other topics."
"Contains some of the most "important" plays written by Irish men and women about Ireland in some form (history, culture, revolution, humanity).
While some of these plays feel more important than they are relevant to our own day and age, they are still interesting reads. And then there are the plays that are always relevant: funny, touching, fantastic, depressing, life-affirming, etc.
This collection is particularly interesting for anyone interested in Ireland, theater history, or just being more informed on the plays that can get people so riled up that revolutions begin."
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