Fifty key Irish plays

Fifty key Irish plays /

"Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault's entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish. Each chapter provides a brief plot outline along with informed analysis and,...

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Other Authors: Richards, Shaun, 1947- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2023]
Series:Routledge key guides.
Subjects:
Irish drama > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Theater > Ireland > History.
English drama > Irish authors.
Literature.
Theater.
Irish drama.
Authors, Irish.
Ireland > In literature.
Ireland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Shaughraun (1874) by Dion Boucicault / Scott Boltwood
  • The importance of being Earnest (1893) by Oscar Wilde / Ben Levitas
  • The last feast of the Fianna (1900) by Alice Milligan / Catherine Morris
  • Kathleen Ni Houlihan (1902) by Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats / Eglantina Remport
  • John Bull's other island (1904) by Bernard Shaw / David Clare
  • The gaol gate (1906) by Lady Gregory / Eglantina Remport
  • The playboy of the Western world (1907) by J.M. Synge / Hélène Lecossois
  • Harvest (1910) by Lennox Robinson / Shaun Richards
  • At the hawk's well (1916) by W.B. Yeats / Michael McAteer
  • The plough and the stars (1926) by Sean O'Casey / James Moran
  • The old lady says "no!", (1929) by Denis Johnston / Ruud van den Beuken
  • Youth's the season
  • ? (1931) by Mary Manning / Ruud van den Beuken
  • Katie Roche (1936) by Teresa Deevy / Chris Morash
  • Purgatory (1938) by W.B. Yeats / Chris Morash
  • An apple a day (1942) by Elizabeth Connor / Ian R. Walsh
  • Tolka Row (1951) by Maura Laverty / Deirdre McFeely
  • Home is the hero (1952) by Walter Macken / Ian R. Walsh
  • The wood of the whispering (1953) by M.J. Molloy / Lisa Coen
  • Waiting for Godot (1953) by Samuel Beckett / James Little
  • The hostage (1958) by Brendan Behan / Michael Pierse
  • Over the bridge (1960) by Sam Thompson / Michael Parker
  • Stephen D (1962) by Hugh Leonard / Christopher Murray
  • The field (1965) by John B. Keane / Lisa Coen
  • Famine (1968) by Tom Murphy / Hiroko Mikami
  • Translations (1980) by Brian Friel / Kelly Matthews
  • The great hunger (1983) by Tom Mac Intyre / Marie Kelly
  • Tea in a china cup (1983) by Christina Reid / Lisa Fitzpatrick
  • Northern star (1984) by Stewart Parker / Marylinn Richtarik
  • Bailegangaire (1985) by Tom Murphy / Csilla Bertha
  • Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme (1985) by Frank McGuiness / David Cregan
  • Ourselves alone (1985) by Anne Devlin / Lisa Fitzpatrick
  • Double cross (1986) by Tom Kilroy / José Lanters
  • A handful of stars (1988) by Billy Roche / Victor Merriman
  • The lament of Arthur Cleary (1989) by Dermot Bolger / Victor Merriman
  • Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) by Brian Friel / Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
  • Digging for fire (1991) by Declan Hughes / Patrick Lonergan
  • Eclipsed (1992) by Patricia Burke Brogan / Charlotte Headrick
  • The steward of Christendom (1995) by Sebastian Barry / Christina Hunt Mahony
  • The beauty queen of Leenane (1996) by Martin McDonagh / Eamonn Jordan
  • The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson / Clare Wallace
  • By the bog of cats (1998) by Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra
  • The Walworth farce (2006) by Enda Walsh / Paige Reynolds
  • Terminus (2007) by Mark O'Rowe / Ondřej Pilný
  • The playboy of the Western world (2007) by Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle / Patrick Lonergan
  • I [heart] Alice [heart] I (2010) by Amy Conroy / J. Paul Halferty
  • No escape (2010) by Mary Raftery / Luke Lamont
  • Laundry (2011) by ANU Productions / Miriam Haughton
  • Quietly (2012) by Owen McAfferty / Shaun Richards
  • Broken promise land (2013) by Mirjana Rendulic / Charlotte McIvor
  • Spinning (2014) by Deirdre Kinahan / Mária Kurdi.

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