Modern Cont Irish Drama Nce 2E Pa

by Harrington,John P.

• ISBN13: 9780393932430
• ISBN10: 0393932435
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O#xE2;#x80;#x99;Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina Carr. The texts are accompanied by John Harrington#xE2;#x80;#x99;s introduction to the volume and by his detailed explanatory annotations. #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Backgrounds and Criticism#xE2;#x80;#x9D; is chronologically organized by playwright and includes prefaces, letters, journal entries, program notes, and interpretative essays for each play in the volume. In order to provide additional context for readers, these materials are preceded by five essays on the early-twentieth-century #xE2;#x80;#x9C;The Irish Dramatic Revival#xE2;#x80;#x9D; and followed by four essays on the current state of #xE2;#x80;#x9C;Theater in Ireland.#xE2;#x80;#x9D; A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

Author Biography

Photographs by John P. Harrington; collage design by Joan Greenfield. The images in the cover illustration are from the Abbey Theatre, the Gate Theatre, the Olympia Theatre, and the Gaiety Theatre-all in Dublin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Texts of the Plays	p. 1
The Pot of Broth	p. 12
At the Hawk's Well	p. 20
Purgatory	p. 29
Spreading the News	p. 36
The Rising of the Moon	p. 50
Riders to the Sea	p. 58
The Playboy of the Western World	p. 68
John Bull's Other Island	p. 113
Juno and the Paycock	p. 197
Krapp's Last Tape	p. 247
Translations	p. 255
The Weir	p. 309
By the Bog of Cats	p. 352
Backgrounds and Criticism	p. 399
The Irish Dramatic Revival	p. 401
Our Irish Theatre	p. 401
What Should Be the Subjects of National Drama?	p. 410
An Irish National Theatre	p. 412
An Irish National Theatre	p. 415
[The Collaborations of Yeats and Lady Gregory]	p. 417
On W. B. Yeats	p. 424
An Introduction for My Plays	p. 424
Strangers in the House	p. 426
Cathleen ni Houlihan Writes Back	p. 429
[At The Hawk's Well]	p. 433
[Purgatory]	p. 440
On Lady Gregory	p. 443
Spreading the News	p. 443
A Note on Spreading the News	p. 444
The Rising of the Moon	p. 444
[Spreading the News]	p. 445
Image-Maker for Ireland: Augusta	p. 449
On J. M. Synge	p. 453
Preface to the Playboy of the Western World	p. 453
Preface to the First Edition of the Well of the Saints	p. 454
[Journal 1907]	p. 454
The Controversy over the Playboy of the Western World	p. 462
The First Playboy	p. 464
[The Playboy of the Western World]	p. 468
On Bernard Shaw	p. 473
Preface far Politicians	p. 473
The Rejection of Shaw's Irish Play: John Bull's Other Island	p. 481
Irish Romance	p. 486
John Bull's Other Islander-Bernard Shaw	p. 491
On Sean O'Casey	p. 496
[Journal 1923-24]	p. 496
[Journal 1923-24]	p. 499
[Juno and the Paycock]	p. 502
[Juno and the Paycock]	p. 506
Sensationalizing Sacrifice	p. 513
On Samuel Beckett	p. 517
Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider	p. 517
[Krapp's Last Tape]	p. 521
The Irish Beckett	p. 525
Beckett and Yeats: Among the Dreaming Shades	p. 530
Chronicles of the Human Heart	p. 535
On Brian Friel	p. 540
Field Day Theatre Company
Program Notes for Translations	p. 540
Making a Reply to the Criticisms of Translations	p. 543
[Translations: A Night at the Theatre]	p. 546
[Review of Translations]	p. 552
Translations: On the Page and On the Stage	p. 554
On Conor McPherson	p. 559
[The Weir]	p. 559
Secular Morality in the Plays of Conor McPherson	p. 563
The Structural Elegance of Conor McPherson's The Weir	p. 568
Pastoral Exhibits: Narrating Authenticities in Conor McPherson's The Weir	p. 572
On Marina Carr	p. 577
[Introduction to Plays]	p. 577
[Interview: On Playing in By the Bog of Cats]	p. 578
A Cautionary Tale: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats	p. 582
Grotesque and Carnivalesque Elements in By the Bog of Cats	p. 587
On Theater in Ireland	p. 594
[Postcolonialism and Irish Theater]	p. 594
Translating Women into Irish Theatre History	p. 600
The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State	p. 606
Pageants, Parades, and Performance Culture	p. 613
Chronology	p. 623
Selected Bibliography	p. 633
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