The Profane Book of Irish Comedy
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1982-07-01 00:00:00.
ISBN: 0801414695
Binding: Hardcover dj in mylar; 337 pp., 'An irreverent look at fourteen Irish dramatists.' '.Krause discusses the major works of fourteen Irish playwrights--Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Dion boucicault, William Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, George Fitzmaurice, Lady Gregory, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robinson, Bernard Shaw, George Shields, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats--and shows the ways in which these works are linked, emotionally and thematically, to early Gaelic literature and the tradition of the mythic pagan playboy Oisin or Usheen.'.
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