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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459579903321

Titolo

The Methuen drama guide to contemporary Irish playwrights / / edited and with an introduction by Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Methuen Drama, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-96060-1

9786612960604

1-4081-3268-0

1-4081-9862-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (678 p.)

Collana

Plays and Playwrights

Disciplina

822.914099415

Soggetti

English drama - Irish authors

English drama - 20th century - History and criticism

English drama - 21st century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 SEBASTIAN BARRY: Jürgen Wehrmann; 2 DERMOT BOLGER: Christina Wald; 3 MARINA CARR: Aleks Sierz; 4 ANNE DEVLIN: Enrica Cerquoni; 5 EMMA DONOGHUE: Cathy Leeney; 6 BRIAN FRIEL: Nicholas Grene; 7 MARIE JONES: Catrin Siedenbiedel; 8 JOHN B. KEANE: Jürgen Kamm; 9 THOMAS KILROY: Anthony Roche; 10 HUGH LEONARD: Emilie Pine; 11 MARTIN LYNCH: Tom Maguire; 12 OWEN McCAFFERTY: Mark Phelan; 13 MARTIN McDONAGH: Martin Middeke; 14 FRANK McGUINNESS: Eamonn Jordan; 15 TOM Mac INTYRE: Daniel Shea; 16 CONOR McPHERSON: Clare Wallace

17 GARY MITCHELL: Paul Devlin 18 TOM MURPHY: Gerold Sedlmayr; 19 DONAL O'KELLY: Patrick Lonergan; 20 MARK O'ROWE: Michael Raab; 21 STEWART PARKER: Eberhard Bort; 22 CHRISTINA REID: Christian Große; 23 J. GRAHAM REID: Jochen Achilles; 24 BILLY ROCHE: Peter Paul Schnierer; 25 ENDA WALSH: Lisa Fitzpatrick



Sommario/riassunto

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960's to the present, written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the United States, Britain and Germany contributing individual studies to the work of each playwright. Each of the twenty-five chapters provides: a biographical introduction to the playwright and their work; a survey and concise analysis of each of the writer's published plays; a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and the critical reception; and...