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R.K Narayan by Nicholas Grene 9780746309544
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £14.24The Indian novelist R.K. Narayan was a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial literature. This detailed critical study covers all of Narayan's work, offering an accessible... -
Yeats's Poetic Codes by Nicholas Grene
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.65Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his... -
Derek Mahon: A Retrospective Nicholas Grene 9781805966838
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16Derek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection of new critical essays offers an important retrospective assessment of the... -
Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination by Nicholas Grene 9780333668641
Booksplease Price: £45.31The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet... -
Bernard Shaw: A Critical View by Nicholas Grene 9780333435380
Booksplease Price: £46.28'...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 idealism.'... -
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays by Nicholas Grene 9780521773416
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the... -
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays by Nicholas Grene 9780521045636
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the... -
Farming in Modern Irish Literature by Nicholas Grene 9780198861294
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a... -
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre by Nicholas Grene 9780198849445
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £41.56The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world,... -
Shakespeare, Jonson, Moliere: The Comic Contract by Nicholas Grene 9780333395332
Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333395332Author Nicholas GreneFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher... -
The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene 9781472568106
Booksplease Price: £31.31Tom 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 of DruidMurphy,... -
The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene 9781472568113
Booksplease Price: £113.11Tom 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 of DruidMurphy,... -
Irish Drama: Local and Global Perspectives by Nicholas Grene 9781788748438
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.25Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book... -
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century Nicholas Grene 9780198893073
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century is the first in-depth study of the subject. It analyses the ways in which theatre in Ireland has developed since the 1990s when emerging playwrights Martin... -
Home on the Stage: Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama by Nicholas Grene 9781107078093
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72As a serious drama set in an ordinary middle-class home, Ibsen's A Doll's House established a new politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this... -
Home on the Stage: Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama by Nicholas Grene 9781107434998
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35As a serious drama set in an ordinary middle-class home, Ibsen's A Doll's House established a new politics of the interior that was to have a lasting impact upon twentieth-century drama. In this... -
Shifting Scenes: Irish theatre-going 1955-1985 by Nicholas Grene 9781788749114
RRP: £11.90Booksplease Price: £11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788749114Author Nicholas GreneFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Peter Lang International... -
The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel by Nicholas Grene 9780521665360
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.75In this book Nicholas Grene explores political contexts for some of the outstanding Irish plays from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. The politics of Irish drama have previously... -
The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel by Nicholas Grene 9780521660518
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £104.20In this book Nicholas Grene explores political contexts for some of the outstanding Irish plays from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. The politics of Irish drama have previously... -
Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000 by Nicholas Grene 9781901866476
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £24.76John Millington Synge, controversial in his own time and long established as a major figure of world theatre, has nonetheless suffered relative critical neglect. Where his great contemporaries Yeats... -
The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory Andrew Hiscock 9781032179032
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a... -
Across the Boundaries: Talking about Thomas Kilroy by Guy Woodward 9781788748070
RRP: £25.40Booksplease Price: £23.88Thomas Kilroy's long and distinguished career is celebrated in this volume by new essays, panel discussions and an interview, reconsidering the work of one of Ireland's most intellectually ambitious... -
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A... -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780713679953
Booksplease Price: £11.60"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's story of the conversion contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter,... -
Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray by Charles A. Carpenter
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £47.23Unlikely friends and collaborators, Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray carried on a lively and wide-ranging correspondence for more than fifty years. When they began exchanging letters in the late... -
Irish Crime Fiction by Brian Cliff 9781137561879
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.65This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish... -
After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon by Stephen Enniss
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.18Over forty-five years have elapsed since Derek Mahon announced his arrival at the forefront of Irish literary life with the release of Night-Crossing, but he remains an elusive figure. In the... -
Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage by Deirdre McFeely 9781107007932
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Deirdre McFeely presents the first book-length critical study of Dion Boucicault, placing his Irish plays in the context of his overall career. The book undertakes a detailed examination of the... -
Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry by Christina Hunt Mahony 9780813214597
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Out of History is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry began publishing at the early age of 25, and his work represents another 25 years of short... -
Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life-Journeys by Katharine Worth 9780198117452
Booksplease Price: £66.79In this uniquely personal account of Samuel Beckett's theatre, Katharine Worth draws on a wealth of remarkable material - her own work producing and directing productions of Beckett's plays, often... -
Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins: A Conversation in Letters, 1915-1940 by Sirshendu Majumdar
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry... -
The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure by Robert Welch 9780199261352
Booksplease Price: £51.61A century ago this year, productions of W. B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field inaugurated the Irish Literary Theatre, which was to take its name from its home in... -
A Bernard Shaw Chronology by A. Gibbs 9780333633274
Booksplease Price: £46.58A.M. Gibbs provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life, career and associations of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), one of the most eminent and influential literary figures of the... -
Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal by Lucy McDiarmid 9780198722786
Booksplease Price: £45.95On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867962
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.06This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life...