Book description
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an
authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish
playwrights from the 1960s to the present, written by a team of
twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the United States, Britain
and Germany contributing individual studies to the work of each
playwright. Each of the twenty-five chapters provides: a biographical
introduction to the playwright and their work; a survey and concise
analysis of each of the writer's published plays; a discussion of their
style, dramaturgical concerns and the critical reception; and a full
bibliography of published plays, listing of premieres and a select list
of critical works. Playwrights covered include: Tom Murphy, Sebastian
Barry, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, Martin McDonagh, Frank
McGuinness, Mark O'Rowe, Christina Reid, Enda Walsh and many more.
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, this collection
surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical
work to emerge from Ireland over the last fifty years. Professor
Martin Middeke is Chair of English Literature at the University of
Augsburg, Germany, and editor of the publications from the German
Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Professor Peter
Paul Schnierer is Chair of English Literature at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany.
