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Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Nicholas Grene

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

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Derek Mahon: A Retrospective

Derek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary Irish poetry, including a…

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Shaw’s dramatization of a Cockney flower girl’s metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women’s independence.

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Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000

Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000.

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Imagination

Nicholas Grene

In this study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare’s main tragic period display a combination of different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. He argues that Shakespeare…

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Bernard Shaw: A Critical View

Nicholas Grene

‘…the analysis of individual plays is measured and illuminating. The book will be of interest to all Shavians, to students, and to the many general readers who value Shaw’s unsentimental…

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Shakespeare, Jonson, Moliere: The Comic Contract

Nicholas Grene

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R.K Narayan

Nicholas Grene

R.K. Narayan, an Indian novelist who wrote in English, is a key figure in postcolonial literature. This introduction to his work explores his background, his politics, his attitude toward modernity…

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Imagination

Nicholas Grene

In this study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare’s main tragic period display a combination of different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. He argues that Shakespeare…

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Home on the Stage: Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House established a theatrical politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene analyses the full…

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Home on the Stage: Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House established a theatrical politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene analyses the full…

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Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V, looking both at their original creation in the 1590s and…

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Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

This book provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V, looking both at their original creation in the 1590s and…

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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

The Politics of Irish Drama analyses some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works of Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book…

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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin)

The Politics of Irish Drama analyses some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works of Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book…

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Irish Drama: Local and Global Perspectives

This book arises from a conference that was held as part of a project funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The project was entitled…

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Shifting Scenes: Irish theatre-going 1955-1985

From the late 1940s, until shortly before his death in 2007, John Devitt was one of Dublin’s most avid and discerning theatre-goers.This book is much more than a record of…

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Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry

Terence Brown,Nicholas Grene

A collection of essays presenting an insider view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple…

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing the study of Irish theatre since the late nineteenth century.

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides a comprehensive guide to beginning or continuing the study of Irish theatre since the late nineteenth century.

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Synge and Edwardian Ireland

This book uses J.M. Synge’s plays, prose, and photography to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland. By emphasizing less familiar contexts, including the rise of a local celebrity culture…

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Farming in Modern Irish Literature

Nicholas Grene (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin)

Explores the various ways in which the farm and farming have been represented in Irish writing in the period of Independence and Partition after 1922.

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Murphy Plays: 5: The Wake; Too Late for Logic; The House; Alice Trilogy

Tom Murphy

Murphy Plays: 5 brings together four of the authors recent works: The Wake, Too Late for Logic, The House, and Alice Trilogy. It is published to coincide with the Irish…

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Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007

With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Dublin Theatre Festival’s achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well…

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Yeats’s Poetic Codes

Nicholas Grene (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin)

A new approach to Yeats’s poems, concentrating on the reading experience itself. By picking out the distinctive ‘codes’ of Yeats’s poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place…

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Major Barbara

Bernard Shaw

Major Barbara is one of Shaw’s most serious and important plays. The story of the contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter, the Salvation Army Major Barbara…

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The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer

Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success…

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The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer

Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success…

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Yeats’s Poetic Codes

Nicholas Grene (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin)

A new approach to Yeats’s poems, concentrating on the reading experience itself. By picking out the distinctive ‘codes’ of Yeats’s poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place…

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