Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr, Second Edition

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi P A R T O N E | Backgrounds 1. Early Irish History 3 2. The Century of Destiny 8 3. The Literary Tradition 12 4. The Irish Theater 16 P A R T T W O | Playwrights and Plays 5. A Thematic Introduction 29 6. The Founders 34 Lady Gregory 34 William Butler Yeats 46 George Bernard Shaw 64 John Millington Synge 67 7. Other Early-Modern Dramatists 76 Padraic Colum 76 T. C. Murray 78 George Fitzmaurice 80 VI | C ON T E N T S Lennox Robinson 82 George Shiels 84 8. The Sean O’Casey Era and After 87 Sean O’Casey 87 Paul Vincent Carroll 95 Denis Johnston 97 M. J. Molloy 99 Samuel Beckett 101 Brendan Behan 110 9. Brian Friel and Other Modern Dramatists 114 Brian Friel 114 Hugh Leonard 126 John B. Keane 127 Eugene McCabe 128 Tom Mac Intyre 129 Thomas Kilroy 130 Tom Murphy 132 Stewart Parker 134 Christina Reid 135 Neil Donnelly 135 Billy Roche 137 Anne Devlin 137 Marie Jones 138 Frank McGuinness 140 Michael Harding 142 Sebastian Barry 143 Niall Williams 144 Donal O’Kelly 145 Dermot Bolger 147 Vincent Woods 147 Jimmy Murphy 148 Declan Hughes 149 C ON T E N T S | VII Marina Carr and the New Voices 150 Marina Carr 150 Jacqueline McCarrick 152 Eugene O’Brien 153 Enda Walsh 153 Christian O’Reilly 154 Stella Feehily 155 Paul Meade 155 Emma Donoghue 156 Mark O’Rowe 156 Ronan Noone 157 Martin McDonagh 158 Conor McPherson 160 Stuart Carolan 162 Robert Massey 162 Ursula Rani Sarma 163 Gary Duggan 163 Sean McLoughlin 164 Ioanna Anderson 164 Lisa McGee 164 Selected Critical Bibliography 169 Filmography 173 Index 175 ...