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A wry, moving, funny play of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues, from the multi-award winning author of The Weir. A boy leaves home for the first time. A man starts a job for which he is not qualified. A pensioner has just been sent a mysterious package. Away...

A 45-minute monologue from the multi-award winning author of The Weir. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award. Following the misfortunes of a petty criminal whose conscience beats him up when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap. 'the writing is terse, lucid and admirably dispassionate' - Irish Times

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.  Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This edition of The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet includes a table of contents.

Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick and thin, through troubled times and other,...

The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four full-length plays – three of which were produced by Galway's...

During a brief but brilliant literary career, Irish-born dramatist and statesman Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) wrote cleverly plotted plays that revealed his nimble wit and keen eye for comic situations. Two of them — The School for Scandal and The Rivals — are among the funniest in...

The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan, irish playwright and poet (1751-1816) This ebook presents «The Rivals», from Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- PREFACE...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and poet...

The Duenna Richard Brinsley Sheridan, irish playwright and poet (1751-1816) This ebook presents «The Duenna», from Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- DRAMATIS...

At the Trial of Warren Hastings Richard Brinsley Sheridan, irish playwright and poet (1751-1816) This ebook presents «At the Trial of Warren Hastings», from Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- AT THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS -03- FOOTNOTES

This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poetic development through selective examples both of individual poems and of poetic influence. Bornstein focuses most centrally on Browning in the Victorian period and Yeats and Pound in the Modern, but also looks more briefly at works by Wordsworth,...

Four-act play, written in 1881. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered...

Award-winning playwright Jonathan Moore has been described as a “singular voice for his generation: furious, nihilistic, poetic…” (Time Out). This anthology brings together three of his critically acclaimed plays, including: This Other Eden, Fall From Light, and Treatment.   The...

Written by the prizewinning Irish poet Moya Cannon, this collection explores the effects of time, change, migration, and travel-in both the human and the natural worlds. Sensuous and resonant, these poems are votive offerings that possess musicality and are sensitive to the functional qualities language.