British Irish category: 5386 books
by Andrew McNeillie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Andrew McNeillie’s most powerful collection to date returns to the subject of the sea and uses its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It celebrates the natural beauty of the British and Irish archipelago, following a northwestern trajectory from the Aran Islands to the Hebrides. The natural world...
by Borbála Faragó
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
There was a treaty signed between the IRA and the British government that allowed the self governance of sixteen out of twenty two counties.The treaty was signed in the year 1921. It was, however, a controversial treaty. The die-hard Republicans demanded the independence of all of Ireland.A...
by Richard Rankin Russell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright who also served as a Whig member of the British House of Commons for over 30 years. Sheridan’s most famous plays are The Rivals and The School for Scandal. This edition of The Rivals: A Comedy includes a table of contents.
PYGMALION (With Original Illustrations)
A Celebrated Satire on English Language and Englishmen From the Author of Renowned Plays like Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and The Man, Caesar And Cleopatra, Man and Superman
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This beautifully illustrated eBook edition of "PYGMALION" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." (Pygmalion,...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Pygmalion (Complete Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” (Pygmalion,...
Great Catherine (Annotated)
Whom Glory Still Adores
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores is a 1913 one-act...
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright who also served as a Whig member of the British House of Commons for over 30 years. Sheridan’s most famous plays are The Rivals and The School for Scandal. This edition of The School for Scandal includes a table of contents.
by Daljit Nagra
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry. British Museum is his third collection, following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana, and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter, more contemplative and inquisitive, at times valedictory....
A Race Of Female Patriots
Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined new forms of affiliation, allegiance, and loyalty suitable to the new British constitution established...
Writing the History of the British Stage
1660–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century. In this compelling revisionist study, Richard Schoch reclaims the deep history of British...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ..., Fix Up, Gone Too Far!
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream,...
Twentieth-Century British Theatre
Industry, Art and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In this book, Claire Cochrane maps the experience of theatre across the British Isles during the twentieth century through the social and economic factors which shaped it. Three topographies for 1900, 1950 and 2000 survey the complex plurality of theatre within the nation-state which at the beginning...