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Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
The making of The playboy / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- The dramatic imagination / Alan Price -- A hard birth / Donna Gerstenberger -- Character and symbol / Robi n Skelton -- Approaches to The playboy / Nicholas Grene -- The playboy as antidrama / Bruce M. Bigley -- The gallous story and the dirty deed / Edward Hirsch -- The living world for text / Hugh Kenner.
15) The Aran Islands
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Located off the west coast of Ireland, the Aran Islands were considered the country's pure, uncorrupted heart, the repository of its ancient language, culture, and spiritual values. John Millington Synge visited the Aran Islands during the years 1898 to 1901, gathering folklore and anecdotes that he would later use in his plays. His evocative travelogue is a peek at a disappearing way of life, capturing the ancient ways of the island, its breathtaking...
17) Ghost light
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A collaborative effort between W. B. Yeats and resident playwright John Synge at the Abbey Theatre in 1907 gives way to a barrier-breaking affair with teen actress Molly Allgood, who after World War II looks back on her career and the great love of her life.