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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...

Named after a Greek mythological character the play was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower...

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...

A giant of eighteenth century theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish satirist, playwright and poet. His celebrated plays ‘The Rivals’ and ‘The School for Scandal’ exerted a major influence on the development of English drama and continue to be performed worldwide today. For the first...

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...

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 Critic includes a table of contents.

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,...

'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding through the space between one world and another . . .' The Mabinogi is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure and romance, which have long fascinated readers all over the world. Matthew Francis's...