Yeats and the Noh started in a small seminar room in University College Dublin, when both authors took part in productions of The Dreaming of the Bones and Nishikigi with their students. Masaru Sekine directed both plays and Christopher Murray performed in them: they were therefore equipped with live experience as well as their personal expertise in Irish literature and Noh drama.Professor Augustine Martin introduces the volume, and apart from the main section of the book, Colleen Hanrahan, one of the students who took part in both UCD productions, writes about acting in Yeats's play; Peter Davidson writes about Yeats, Pound, Rummel and Dulac; and Katharine Worth provides an essay on Yeats, Beckett and Noh. There are 16 pages of illustrations.This volume is unique in providing detailed analysis of contrasts in theatrical aims, as well as examining why man seeks to explore tragic drama as a means of extending the limits of reality. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 38.

Yeats and the Noh: A Comparative Study (Irish Literacy Studies Series)

Literature & Fiction

Murray, Christopher

Sekine, Masaru

British & Irish

Rl Innactive Titles

No one interested in Irish studies during the past 30 years will have missed the work of Patrick Rafroidi. Whether it be romantic poets or the contemporary novel or theatre and drama, he had much to say that was provocative, lively and always readable. His contribution to Irish studies was not only scholarly in the best and most strenuous sense but also generous, lighthearted and enlivening. Because he was such a friend to the Irish, the memory of Patrick Rafroidi well suits the general theme of this book.

Ireland and France, a Bountiful Friendship: Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi (Volume 42) (Irish Literacy Studies Series, 42)

Hayley, Barbara

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The next installment in The Faber Critical Guides Series: An in-depth look at the maverick Irish playwright Sean O'Casey was one of the most affecting playwrights of his generation; a renegade who came of age at the dawn of Ireland's fight for independence from Britain and championed the working-class during the bleak years of The Great Depression. Praised for his genius-ear for dialogue and the poetry of his prose, O'Casey's work brought audiences into the gritty, impoverished world of Dublin's streets and pubs. His controversial plays helped establish the reputation of the internationally renowned Abbey Theatre, where the productions of The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock were met with riots and vigorous protests. In Sean O'Casey, Christopher Murray examines the abovementioned works as well as The Shadow of a Gunman, which taken together comprise O'Casey's famed Dublin trilogy, and elucidates the social context of the plays and the theatrical environment of the times--crucial elements in understanding O'Casey's writing.

Sean O'Casey: Critical Guide / Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars (Faber Critical Guides)

Humor & Entertainment

Faber&Faber

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror Up to Nation

Dramas & Plays

Manchester Univ Pr

The Irish Dramatic Movement gave to the world major playwrights such as Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, O'Casey and Beckett, while in more recent times the international stage has come to appreciate the talents of a new generation of irish playwrights, from Brian Field to sebastian Barry and Marina Carr. In addition, since 1969, the drama of Northern Ireland, on and off the stage, has claimed world-wide attention. Preoccupied with questions of identity and national self-realisation, it was only after the achievement of independence in 1922 that the theatre assumed a more critical, analytic and demythologising role in society. It retained, however, the notion of a dynamic, of a system of beliefs open to wider possibilities than the established ideology fostered and controlled, keeping alive the idea of cultural revolt and renewal. Thus Irish drama owes its imaginative power to both its energetic involvement with the cultural transformations, as well as to more acceptable modes of representation and critique. This volume provides a perfect overview of a nation's theatre read in the light of a nation's self-definition. Mediating between history and its troubled relation with politics and art, the book attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Sean O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work takes a fresh look at the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival. O'Casey was a self-made man of letters torn between a humanist vision of life rooted in his Dublin childhood and a utopian loyalty to the Soviet Union. Rich in original material, Sean O'Casey reconstructs a life committed to writing as a moral endeavour. Murray vividly establishes `O'Casey's Ireland,' the Dublin of O'Casey's childhood, and the political situation in Ireland. Murray further explores O'Casey's rise as an international figure - much of his income after leaving Ireland came from the United States - and contrasts his mature socialist work with the early nationalistic writing. In Sean O'Casey Murray paints a dazzling picture of a passionate and generous artist who is among the best dramatists of the twentieth century.

Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work - A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

McGill-Queen's University Press

Toward Political Union: Planning A Common Foreign And Security Policy In The European Community

History

Rummel, Reinhard

Scheich, Manfred

Coignez, Veerle

Hamlet, Larry

Europe

Westview Press

This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (Irish Studies)

Syracuse University Press

Unusual Punishment details the explosive story of failed reform at the Washington State Penitentiary as well as the complex, challenging, and painful path back from chaos.

Unusual Punishment: Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985

Americas

Washington State University Press

Howard Finster: American Flag Painting

Arts & Photography

Govinda Gallery

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