The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

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Notes on contributors Chronology 1. Plays of (ever) changing Ireland Shaun Richards 2. Late nineteenth-century Irish theatre: before the Abbey - and beyond Stephen Watt 3. The ideology of the Abbey theatre Adrian Frazier 4. The theatre of William Butler Yeats Joep Leerssen 5. Lady Gregory's Abbey theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal James Pethica 6. J. M. Synge, 'national' drama and the post-Protestant imagination Mary C. King 7. On the siting of doors and windows: aesthetics, ideology and Irish stage design Richard Allen Cave 8. Oscar Wilde and the politics of style Neil Sammells 9. George Bernard Shaw and Ireland Gearoid O'Flaherty 10. Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy: disillusionment to delusion Ronan McDonald 11. Ireland's 'exiled' woman playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr Cathy Leeney 12. Samuel Beckett and the counter-tradition John P. Harrington 13. Brian Friel's sense of place Helen Lojek 14. The Field Day Theatre Company Marilynn Richtarik 15. Tom Murphy and the children of loss Nicholas Grene 16. Reconstructing history in the Irish history play Claire Gleitman 17. The Abbey theatre and the Irish state Lionel Pilkington 18. Staging contemporary Ireland: heartsickness and hopes deferred Vic Merriman 19. The revival revised Brian Singleton Guide to further reading Index.