Contemporary Irish Theatre
(Essays in Honour of D.E.S. Maxwell)
Edited by
Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy

COMING SOON

Contents

Seamus Heaney. ‘The Wood Road’

Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy. Introduction, ‘The Dreaming Body’

Eamonn Jordan. ‘Urban Dramas:  Any Myth Will Do?’

Extract from Marina Carr’s Chekhov, introduced by Melissa Sihra

Lynne Parker. ‘Showtime: The Strategy of Mischief in the Plays of Stewart Parker’

Mark Phelan. ‘Performing “Authentic” Ireland: (Dis)connecting the Cultural Politics of the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage’

Rhona Trench. ‘Staging Morality in On Raftery’s Hill: A Kristevan Reading’

Stephen Regan. ‘Terry Eagleton’s Saint Oscar’

Extract from Terry Eagleton’s Saint Oscar

Brian Singleton. ‘Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities and the Performance of Nation’

Olwen FouĂ©rĂ©. ‘Operating Theatre and Angel/Babel

Aoife Monks. ‘Looking for Fiona: Gender and Nationality in the Work of Fiona Shaw’

Paul Murphy. ‘Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee, or what was lost in Translations

Conall Morrison. ‘The Future of Greek Tragedy and The Bacchae of Baghdad’

Extract from Conall Morrison’s The Bacchae of Baghdad

Melissa Sihra. ‘Birthdays and Deathdays in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr’

David Johnston. ‘En otras palabras: Frank McGuinness and Spanish Drama’

Donal O’Kelly in conversation with Paul Murphy

Robert Welch. ‘Afterword’

 This is the sixteenth volume in the Ulster Editions & Monographs series.
Essays on and extracts from the work of modern Irish playwrights

ISBN 13 (978-0-86140-465-0)    Hardback   21.6cm   vi, 240 pp.   Ł35.00

06/09/2007