Modern Irish Drama（现代爱尔兰戏剧）

This Norton Critical Edition of Modern Irish Drama reprints thecomplete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights:W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, SeanO'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. The es Ae fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish sage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions. "Backgrounds and Criticism" contains almost fifty texts rel-evant to each of the twelve plays represented. Included are prefaces by authors, reports by spectators on the original pro-ductions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances,and recent critical assessments by American, British, and Irish scholars. From its collection of documents relevant to the origin of the Irish Literary Revival in the midst of Ireland's republican revolution to the recent formation of the Field Day Company in Northern Ireland, Modern Irish Drama charts the rise, develop-ment, and present state of one of the most powerful nationaldramas of the twentieth century.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Preface
The Texts of the Plays
W. B. Yeats
　　Cathleen Ni Houlihan
　　On Baile's Strand
　　Purgatory
　Lady Gregory
　　Spreading the News
　　The Rising of the Moon
　J. M. Synge
　　Riders to the Sea
　　The Playboy of the Western World
Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island
Sean O'Casey Juno and the Paycock
Brendan Behan The Quare Fellow
Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape
Brian Friel Translations
Backgrounds and Criticism
IRISH DRAMA
Lady Gregory·Our Irish Theatre
John Eglinton·What Should Be the Subjects of National　Drama?
W. B. Yeats·An Irish National Theatre
Frank I. Fay·An Irish National Theatre
　 Ernest Boyd·The Dramatic Movement
David Krause·The Hagiography of Cathleen Ni Houlihan
W. B. YEATS
W. B. Yeats·An Introduction for My Plays
Phillip L. Marcus·[Yeats and the Irish Renaissance]
G. I. Watson·[Cathleen Ni Houlihan]
lames W. Flannery·[On Baile's Strand]
Donald T. Torchiana·[Purgatory]
LADY GREGORY
Lady Gregory·Spreading the News
Lady Gregory " A Note on Spreading the News
Lady Gregory·The Rising of the Moon
Ann Saddlemyer·Image-Maker for Ireland: Augusta, Lady　Gregory
Daniel I. Murphy·Lady Gregory, Co-author and Sometimes　Author of the Plays of W. B. Yeats
Elizabeth Coxhead·Lady Gregory: A Literary Portrait　j. M. SYNGE
Robin Skelton·[Riders to the Sea]
1- M. Synge·Preface to The Playboy of the Western World
W. B. Yeats·Preface to the First Edition of The Well of the　Saints
Joseph Holloway·[Journal 19o7]
W. B. Yeats·The Controversy over The Playboy of the Western World
Una Ellis-Fermor·[John Millington Synge]
Nicholas Grene·Approaches to The Playboy
BERNARD SHAW
Bernard Shaw·Preface for Politicians
M. I. Sidnell·Hic and llle: Shaw and Yeats
Norma ]enckes·The Rejection of Shaw's Irish Play: John Bull's　Other Island
David Krause·[John Bull's Other Island]
SEAN O'CASEY
Joseph Holloway·[Journal 1923-24]
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