SYNGE SUMMER SCHOOL 2008 RECOMMENDED READING

 

Plays

Brian Friel, Plays: One (London: Faber, 1996)

Brian Friel, Three Sisters (Oldcastle: Gallery Press)

Christina Reid, Plays 1 ( Methuen)

Anne Devlin - After Easter (Faber, also published by Dramatists Play Service)

Conor McPherson, Plays: 2 (London: Nick Hern Books)

Conor McPherson, The Seafarer (London: Nick Hern)

J.M. Synge, Collected Works (Gerrards Cross, Bucks: Colin Smythe/Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1982), 4 volumes

Marina Carr, Plays:One (London: Faber, 1999)

Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan (London: Methuen, 1997)

RB Sheridan, The School for Scandal and Pizzaro

Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (London: Faber, 1986)

Sebastian Barry, Plays 1 (Methuen)

Stewart Parker, Plays 2 (London: Methuen)

 

Background and Critical Reading

Adrian Frazier (ed.). Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2004)

Anthony Roche, The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (Cambridge, 2005).

Christopher Morash, A History of Irish Theatre, 1601 – 2000, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Christopher Murray, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to a Nation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997).

Colm Toibin (ed.), Synge: A Celebration (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2006)

Declan Kiberd Synge and the Irish language . 2 nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1993).

Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995)

Druid Synge website contains essays, biographical information, and other work on Synge – http://www.druidsynge.com .

John P Harrington, The Irish Beckett (Syracuse, 1991)

John P. Harrington. The Irish play on the New York stage, 1874-1966. (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997).

Melissa Sihra, Women in Irish Drama (London: Palgrave)

Nicholas Grene, ed. Interpreting Synge: essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000. (Dublin: Lilliput Pr., 2000)

Nicholas Grene, The Politics of Irish Drama, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Shaun Richards (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History: From 1922 to 2002 (London, 2004)

W.J. McCormack, Fool of the Family: A Biography of J.M. Synge (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000)