| Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy Contributor(s): McDonald, Marianne (Editor), Walton, J. Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0413771423 ISBN-13: 9780413771421 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $67.32 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2002 Annotation: Irish playwrights have often returned to the world of Greek myth, in recent years more than ever. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone-immediate and concentrated through parallel and parable. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists of the past and present have drawn on Greek myths, which have travelled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live. Amid Our Troubles examines the work of such writers as Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness and W.B. Yeats, and includes new essays from, amongst others, Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney, and Tom Paulin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.910 |
| LCCN: 2003427893 |
| Series: Plays and Playwrights |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6" W x 9.64" (1.15 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live. Including essays from, amongst others, Athol Fugard, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin Amid Our Troubles looks at the work of such writers as Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness and W. B. Yeats. |