"This superb collection of eighteen plays has long been needed. It provides a sound and solid introduction to the rich field of modern Irish drama, and should be as delightful to the private reader as it will be useful for university classes."--
Journal of Irish Literature
Contents:
Spreading the News and The Gaol Gate
-- Lady Gregory;
On Baile's Strand and the Only Jealousy of Emer
--W.B. Yeats;
The Land
--Padraic Colum;
The Playboy of the Western World
--J.M. Synge;
Maurice Harr
--T. C. Murray;
The Magic Glasses
--George Fitzmaurice;
Juno and the Paycock
- -Sean O'Casey;
The Big House
--Lennox Robinson;
The Old Lady Says "No!"
--Denis Johnston;
As the Crow Flies
--Austin Clarke;
The Paddy Pedlar
--M. J. Malloy;
The Vision of Mac Conglinne
--Padraic Fallon;
The Quare Fellow
--Brendan Behan;
All that Fall
--Samuel Becket;
Da
--Hugh Leonard;
Translations
--Brian Friel