Selected Plays of Lady Gregory (Irish Drama Selections) - Hardcover

Gregory, Isabella Augusta; INT>FitzGerald, Mary; Sean O'Casey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861400992 ISBN 13: 9780861400997

Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

Contents: The Travelling Man; Spreading the News; Kincora; Hyacinth Halvey; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; The Gaol Gate; The Rising of the Moon; Dervorgilla; The Workhouse Ward; Grania; The Golden Apple; The Story Brought by Brigit; Dave Lady Gregory wrote her first play when she was forty nine years old. Apart from her collaborations with W.B.Yeats and others, and translated adaptations, she produced thirty nine plays, while devoting a great ddeal of time to the management of the Abbey Theatre, and the Lane Pictures. Described with admiration by Bernard Shaw as the Irish Moliere, she contributed plays in every genre-comedies, tragedies, tragic-comedies, wonder and supernatural plays-and for every audience, most effectively in the one act form. This collection of thirteen plays, and her writings about them, is intended to show the breadth of her playwriting abilities, and her thoughts on the plays and their creation. Chosen, and with an introduction, by Mary FitzGerald, this third volume in the Irish Drama Selections series has a bibliographical checklist by Colin Smythe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0861400992
• ISBN 13: 9780861400997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English