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" A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 "
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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2009
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b11847
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English
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Luckhurst, Mary
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A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005/ edited by Mary Luckhurst
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA ;Oxford: Blackwell Pub.,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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(Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 43)
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xvii, 584 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
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9781405122283(alk.paper)
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| Notes
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Domestic and imperial politics in Britain and Ireland : the testimony of Irish theatre / Victor Merriman -- Reinventing England / Declan Kiberd -- Ibsen in the English theatre in the Fin de Siaecle / Katherine Newey -- New woman drama / Sally Ledger -- Shaw among the artists / Jan McDonald -- Granville Barker and the court dramatists / Cary M. Mazer -- Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre / Mary Trotter -- Suffrage theatre : community activism and political commitment / Susan Carlson -- Unlocking Synge today / Christopher Murray -- Sean O'Casey's powerful fireworks / Jean Chothia -- Auden and Eliot : theatres of the thirties / Robin Grove -- Empire and class in the theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy / Mary Brewer -- When was the Golden Age? Narratives of loss and decline : John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland / Stephen Lacey -- A commercial success : women playwrights in the 1950s / Susan Bennett -- Home thoughts from abroad : Mustapha Matura / D. Keith Peacock -- The remains of the British Empire : the plays of Winsome Pinnock / Gabriele Griffin -- Wilde's comedies / Richard Allen Cave -- Always acting : Noeel Coward and the performing self / Frances Gray -- Beckett's divine comedy / Katharine Worth -- Form and ethics in the comedies of Brendan Behan / John Brannigan -- Joe Orton : anger, artifice and absurdity / David Higgins -- Alan Ayckbourn : experiments in comedy / Alexander Leggatt -- They both add up to me : the logic of Tom Stoppard's dialogic comedy / Paul Delaney -- Stewart Parker's comedy of terrors / Anthony Roche -- A wounded stage : drama and World War I / Mary Luckhurst -- Staging the Holocaust in England / John Lennard -- Troubling perspectives : Northern Ireland, the troubles and drama / Helen Lojek -- On war : Charles Wood's military conscience / Dawn Fowler and John Lennard -- Torture in the plays of Harold Pinter / Mary Luckhurst -- Sarah Kane : from terror to trauma / Steve Waters -- Theatre since 1968 / David Pattie -- Lesbian and gay theatre : all queer on the West End front / John Deeney -- Edward Bond : maker of myths / Michael Patterson -- John McGrath and popular political theatre / Maria DiCenzo -- David Hare and political playwriting : between the third way and the permanent way / John Deeney -- Left in front : David Edgar's political theatre / John Bull -- Liz Lochhead : writer and re-writer : stories, ancient and modern / Jan McDonald -- Spirits that have become mean and broken : Tom Murphy and the famine of modern Ireland / Shaun Richards -- Caryl Churchill : feeling global / Elin Diamond -- Howard Barker and the theatre of catastrophe / Chris Megson -- Reading history in the plays of Brian Friel / Lionel Pilkington -- Marina Carr : violence and destruction : language, space and landscape / Cathy Leeney -- Scrubbing up nice? Tony Harrison's stagings of the past / Richard Rowland -- The question of multiculturalism : the plays of Roy Williams / D. Keith Peacock -- Ed Thomas : jazz pictures in the gaps of language / David Ian Rabey -- Theatre and technology / Andy Lavender.
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English drama20th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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English dramaIrish authors--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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IrelandIntellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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EnglandIntellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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| Dewey Classification
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822.9109
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PR736.C575 2006
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