Synopsis
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
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Martin Middeke & Peter Paul Schnierer - Anthology Editors
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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre
Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama
The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe
Each essay features
a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright
a discussion of their most important plays
an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre
a bibliography of texts and critical material
With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1 SEBASTIAN BARRY
Jurgen Wehrmann
2 DERMOT BOLGER
Christina Wald
3 MARINA CARR
Aleks Sierz
4 ANNE DEVLIN
Enrica Cerquoni
5 EMMA DONOGHUE
Catherine Leeney
6 BRIAN FRIEL
Nicholas Grene
7 MARIE JONES
Catrin Siedenbiedal
8 JOHN B. KEANE
Jurgen Kamm
9 THOMAS KILROY
Anthony Roche
10 HUGH LEONARD
Emilie Pine
11 MARTIN LYNCH
Tom Maguire
12 OWEN MCCAFFERTY
Mark Phelan
13 MARTIN MCDONAGH
Martin Middeke
14 FRANK MCGUINNESS
Eamonn Jordan
15 TOM MACINTYRE
Daniel Shea
16 CONOR MCPHERSON
Clare Wallace
17 GARY MITCHELL
Paul Devlin
18 TOM MURPHY
Gerold Sedlmayr
19 DONAL O'KELLY
Patrick Lonergan
20 MARK O'ROWE
Michael Raab
21 STEWART PARKER
Eberhard Bort
22 CHRISTINA REID
Christian Große
23 GRAHAM REID
Jochen Achilles
24 BILLY ROCHE
Peter Paul Schnierer
25 ENDA WALSH
Lisa Fitzpatrick