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  • - A World of Savage Stories
     
    546,-

  • av Una Hunt
    636,-

    This new critical edition collects together for the first time in one volume selected original arrangements of the world-famous Irish Melodies for solo voice and duet along with other successful English-language songs to texts by Moore and foreign-language settings by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Duparc.

  • - Goethe's Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein, Orchestral Score, Piano Reduction, and Translation
     
    436,-

    There remains an unexplored aspect of Goethe's career: his surprisingly significant role in 19th century melodrama. This score, the first edition of Eberwein's setting of Goethe's melodrama, Proserpina, offers an unprecedented examination of Goethe's text and overturns the accepted image of the artist as unmusical.

  • - The Life and Music of John Buckley
    av Benjamin Dwyer
    386,-

    As well as providing a very readable and comprehensive study of the life and music of John Buckley,¿Constellations also offers an up-to-date and informative catalogue of compositions, a complete discography, translations of set texts and the full libretto of his chamber opera, making this book an essential guide for both students and professional scholars alike.

  • - by Tilly Fleischmann
     
    560,-

    This is a book of considerable historical importance, offering an authoritative account of Liszt's teaching methods as imparted by two of his former students. It contains much valuable information unavailable elsewhere: none of the reminiscences of Liszt published by his students discuss technical matters or interpretation in comparable detail.

  • - Critical Perspectives for Performers
    av Benjamin Dwyer
    406,-

  • av Harry White
    206,-

  • - Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil War Ireland
     
    470,-

  • - The Fourth Seamus Heaney Lectures
     
    276,-

    Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland's contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera and its history.

  • av Hugh Maxton
    196,-

    Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland. It is also a vigorous contribution to the age-old dialogue between Sacred and Profane themes, questioning beliefs and pleasures, guilts and landscapes, poetic methods and prosaic realities.

  • av Roger Lenaers
    270,-

    The author looks at the gospels from a modern angle. Was Jesus a person like us? He investigates these issues conscientiously and opens up a new way in which the modern Christian, despite everything, can confidently be a believer.

  •  
    330,-

    This thought-provoking volume of essays, wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, engages with questions surrounding the many meanings ascribed to death and the memorialisation of the dead.

  • av Tom Murphy
    220,-

    The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.'Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol.

  • - Soul-Journeys in Contemporary Irish Theatre
    av Anne F. O'Reilly
    436,-

    This book is a literary tour de force, where 28 Irish plays are examined and their rich cultural context exposed in a way that educates and excites.

  • - Production Histories
    av Adrian Frazier
    380,-

    The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The remainder focuses on one contemporary performance, that of Druid Theatre, as directed by Garry Hynes

  • - 'New Critical Perspectives'
     
    380,-

    The essays collected in Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist.

  • - Texts Chosen by Tomas O Suilleabhain Edited by Margaret O'Sullivan Farrell
    av Tomas O Suilleabhain
    700,-

    In this edition, the first in which all Beethoven's Irish folksong settings are published together, the late baritone, broadcaster and musicologist, Tomas O Suilleabhain, selected texts, mostly by Burns and Moore, which he felt were more appropriate to the airs and to Beethoven's settings.

  • - Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry
     
    436,-

    This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of Sebastian Barry's career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays.

  • - 'The Work has Value'
     
    480,-

    Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry makes an important contribution to our understanding of the work of Ireland's greatest living playwright. The fifteen essays collected here provide us with new perspectives on Friel's most familiar works.

  • - Feminist Perspectives
     
    436,-

    It aims to stimulate further enquiry, research and critical reflection, in sceptical, analytic or celebratory modes, on the riches of Irish literary texts and traditions. The collection discusses texts from the early 18th century to the present.

  • av Thomas Murphy
    220,-

    The central subject of the play is the quest a character at the point of emotional and moral breakdown for some source of meaning or identity.

  • - Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007
     
    436,-

    With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Dublin Theatre Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad.

  • - Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre
    av Christopher Fitz-Simon
    390,-

    In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote.

  • - Local and Global Perspectives
     
    366,-

    Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Essays discuss some of Ireland¿s major theatre companies ¿ Druid, the Abbey Theatre, Rough Magic, Blue Raincoat, Field Day and others ¿ while also exploring the presence of Irish drama in the UK, the USA, Germany, and throughout Ireland. The volume also presents the views of key playwrights, featuring essays by Elizabeth Kuti and Ursula Rani Sarma, and including a new interview with Enda Walsh.

  • av Anthony Roche
    330,-

    In Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama, Anthony Roche draws on twenty-five years of engagement with Synge's plays to present ten chapters on the unfolding of a double narrative. It will be of considerable interest to students of Irish drama both in Ireland and worldwide.

  • - Beckett and After
     
    436,-

    Ireland on Stage: Beckett and After, a collection of ten essays on contemporary Irish theatre, focuses primarily on Irish playwrights and their works, both in text and on the stage, in the latter half of the twentieth century.

  • - Wexford as the World
     
    440,-

    Billy Roche - musician, actor, novelist, dramatist, screenwriter - is one of Ireland's most versatile talents. This anthology, the first comprehensive survey of Roche's work, focuses on his portrayal of one Irish town as a microcosm of human life itself, elemental and timeless.

  •  
    276,-

    Articles: «The Cries of Pagan Desperation»: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the Discontents of Historical Time by Christopher Collins; Scenographic Interactions: 1950s Ireland and Dublin's Pike Theatre by Siobhan O'Gorman; Uneasy Bedfellows: Culture, Commerce and the Rise of the «Production Hub» Paradigm in Irish Theatre by Lisa Fitzgerald; Respond or Else: Conor MacPherson's The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse by Eamonn Jordan; Gay Masculinities in Performance: Towards a Queer Dramaturgy by Cormac O'Brien; Perform, or Else! Reflections from an Irish theatre maker by Neil Watkins.

  • - Irish Theatre - Past, Present and Future
     
    400,-

    As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures - writers like Synge, O'Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined.

  • - Ireland, Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe
    av M. KURDI
    436,-

    This informative and incisive collection of essays sheds new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts an under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture in Central and Eastern Europe and investigates how key authors have been translated, performed, and adapted.

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