This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays
by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats Lady Gregory J. M. Synge Bernard Shaw Sean
O'Casey Samuel Beckett Brian Friel Conor McPherson and Marina Carr. The texts are
accompanied by John Harrington's introduction to the volume and by his detailed explanatory
annotations. Backgrounds and Criticism is chronologically organized by playwright and includes
prefaces letters journal entries program notes and interpretative essays for each play in
the volume. In order to provide additional context for readers these materials are preceded by
five essays on the early-twentieth-century The Irish Dramatic Revival and followed by four
essays on the current state of Theater in Ireland. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are
included.
