<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A scintillating collection of five plays from the last sixty years of<br/>Irish drama featuring work by Behan, Barry, Reid, Murphy, and McDonagh, <br/>and introduced by Patrick Lonergan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Introduced by Patrick Lonergan<i>, The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays </i>brings together five major works from the Irish dramatic canon of the last sixty years in one outstanding collection.</p><br/><p><b>Behan's <i>The Hostage</i></b>, depicting the capture and death<br/>of a British soldier by the IRA, was first produced by Joan<br/>Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958 and was declared <b>'a masterpiece' </b>by <i>The Times. </i><b>Murphy's <i>Bailegangaire </i></b>(1985)<br/>portrays a senile old woman's recitation of an epic tale to her two<br/>granddaughters who struggle to free themselves from her and exorcise<br/>the past. <b>Reid's <i>The Belle of the Belfast City</i></b>, <b>winner of the George Devine Award in 1986</b>, <br/>examines the tensions present in three generations of women in a<br/>Belfast-Protestant family during the week of an anti-Anglo-Irish rally.<br/><b>Sebastian Barry's <i>The Steward of Christendom </i></b>won the London <b>Critics' Circle Award for Best Play 1995 </b>and was heralded by the <i>Guardian </i>as <b>'an authentic masterpiece'</b>. <b>McDonagh's 1996 play <i>The Cripple of Inishmaan</i></b> is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. McDonagh was awarded the <b><i>Evening Standard </i>Award for Most Promising Playwright.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Brendan Behan (1923-64) found fame and notoriety with his work and<br>Republican sympathies. Christina Reid, from Belfast, came to prominence<br>in the 1980s. Tom Murphy's many plays are collected into 5 volumes by<br>Methuen Drama; his most recent play opened in Dublin in 2006. Martin<br>McDonagh's first play, <i>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</i>, was the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award and the <i>Evening Standard</i><br>Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Sebastian Barry is a poet, dramatist<br>and novelist. Patrick Lonergan is professor of English at the National<br>University of Ireland.</p>
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