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Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice by Rhona Trench 9783034308045
Booksplease Price: £63.29This collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenography, physical theatre, dramaturgy and stand-up... -
Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre by Amina ElHalawani 9781032728902
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage for the reader to discover the revolutionary... -
A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000 by David Krasner 9781405157582
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £63.42A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama... -
Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to be Oscar's Contemporary by Graham Price 9783030404956
Booksplease Price: £46.85This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank... -
Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to be Oscar's Contemporary by Graham Price 9783319933443
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank... -
Audrey Wood and the Playwrights by Milly S. Barranger 9781137270627
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.75From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet... -
About Friel: The Playwright and the Work by Tony Coult
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top... -
Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence Robert L. Taylor 9780813344393
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the 'process' of... -
Murphy Plays: v. 4: Whistle in the Dark, Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant, On the Outside on the Inside by Tom Murphy 9780413714503
Booksplease Price: £24.69"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at... -
Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams by Janet E. Miller
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams translates advances by scientific leaders in the relatively new area of macrocognition into a format that will support... -
She Stoops to Folly by Tom Murphy 9780413714008
Booksplease Price: £14.24"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel Modelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy... -
One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521
Booksplease Price: £9.68Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
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One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.18Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
A Short History of English Literature Robert Barnard (Freelance writer, and formerly University of Tromso) 9780631190882
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.96Thoroughly updated, this book remains the best overall survey of English literature available. Brings this successful book up to date with new material on, among others, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel,... -
Ireland: Authority and Crisis by Carine Berberi 9783034319393
RRP: £47.20Booksplease Price: £42.65This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal... -
Contemporary Irish Drama: Second Edition by Anthony Roche 9780230219793
Booksplease Price: £91.99A revised and updated version of this pioneering study covers the extraordinary revival of Irish drama in the second half of the twentieth century. By comparing the theatre of Samuel Beckett to more... -
Contemporary Irish Drama: Second Edition by Anthony Roche 9780230219786
Booksplease Price: £92.11A revised and updated version of this pioneering study covers the extraordinary revival of Irish drama in the second half of the twentieth century. By comparing the theatre of Samuel Beckett to more... -
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Murphy Plays: v. 3: "The Morning After Optimism", "The Sanctuary Lamp", "The Gigli Concert" by Tom Murphy 9780413683502
Booksplease Price: £25.08The third collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel "James in The Morning After Optimism is... -
Ireland's Master Storyteller: The Collected Stories of Éamon Kelly by Eamon Kelly 9781781178416
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.53In this collection, actor and seanchai (traditional storyteller) Eamon Kelly's finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Goban Saor, the... -
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Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" by Anthony P. Pennino 9783319966854
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in... -
Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing by Stephen Watt 9781107404502
Booksplease Price: £43.34Samuel Beckett is one of the most important figures in the history of Irish literature, and he continues to influence successive generations of writers. In Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing,... -
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries by Rebecca Steinberger 9781138620537
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays,... -
Sweeney’s Revival: Translating and transcending the liminal Eamon Maher 9781803744292
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783030071165
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
Booksplease Price: £12.72Between the premiere of Brian Friel's stage play "Dancing at Lughnasa" in 1990 and Pat O'Connor's cinematic adaptation in 1998, Ireland experienced seismic economic and social changes, as well as... -
Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play by Alexandra Poulain 9781349956883
Booksplease Price: £90.03This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers... -
Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing by Stephen Watt 9780521519588
Booksplease Price: £61.05Samuel Beckett is one of the most important figures in the history of Irish literature, and he continues to influence successive generations of writers. In Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing,... -
Audrey Wood and the Playwrights by Milly S. Barranger 9781137385475
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach... -
On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing Bernhard Klein 9780719075858
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book offers a critical reassessment of the uses of history in contemporary Irish literature and culture. It argues that in much recent Irish writing, history is approached not as the proverbial... -
The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays by Helen Heusner Lojek 9780230115231
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.48Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante,... -
A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 by D. E. S. Maxwell 9780521295390
Booksplease Price: £34.48This is a detailed, critical history of Irish drama from the founding of the Irish Literary Theatre to the eighties. Professor Maxwell pays special attention to the fortunes of the Abbey Theatre,... -
Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre by Eamonn Jordan 9781789970289
RRP: £25.40Booksplease Price: £23.88Irish theatre has never been so successful, yet at the same time never more in need of rigorous evaluation. Many of the plays by Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, Anne... -
Text & Presentation, 2009 by Kiki Gounaridou 9780786447060
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.58Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary... -
The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway by Maria Szasz 9783031535444
Booksplease Price: £112.12The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway is the first book-length history of the multi-award winning Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre Company, from its beginning in... -
Annaghmakerrig by Sheila Pratschke 9781843510901
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.40The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, 'Annaghmakerrig'. The Centre is an... -
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose by Ian Hickey 9781032597652
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different... -
Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After by Hiroko Mikami 9781788749350
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.50Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter... -
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People by Lionel Pilkington 9780415069397
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the...