{"title":"Carysfort Press Ltd","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"out-of-history-book-mahony-christina-hunt-9781904505181","title":"Out of History","description":"\u003ci\u003eOut of History\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry began publishing at the early age of 25, and his work represents another 25 years of short stories, poems, works for children, and most notably plays and novels. His play \u003ci\u003eThe Steward of Christendom\u003c\/i\u003e became canonical in Ireland on its first appearance in 1995 and was absorbed into the contemporary repertoire abroad. His recent novel \u003ci\u003eA Long Long Way\u003c\/i\u003e has received the utmost critical attention and was nominated for the Man-Booker prize in London.\u003cbr\u003e Barry is recognized as one of Ireland's greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S. colleges in Irish Studies and in Drama departments. This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of the writer's career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays. The essays address Barry's engagement with the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland and also with issues that inform postcolonial critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e The essays in this volume include contributions from the most prominent of Irish Studies critics from Ireland, Britain, and the United States. Among the contributors are two prize-winning novelists, a historian and recent biographer of the poet W.B. Yeats, a former editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland,\u003c\/i\u003e and several theatre historians and critics. The range and selection of contributors to this volume has ensured a high level of critical expression and an insightful assessment of Barry and his works.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512941322513,"sku":"GOR013283778","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52670610276625,"sku":"NLS9781904505181","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/190450518X.jpg?v=1750964414"},{"product_id":"theatre-of-martin-mcdonagh-book-lilian-chambers-9781904505198","title":"The Theatre of Martin McDonagh","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603907649809,"sku":"GOR007295528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1904505198.jpg?v=1750867437"},{"product_id":"seen-and-heard-book-cathy-leeney-9780953425730","title":"Seen and Heard","description":"These plays make a rich, funny, moving, and theatrically exhilarating collection. In a diversity of stories, styles, and settings they re-define the limits of Irish theatre for the new century. These playwrights create an Irish theatre looking out to the world around it, re-inventing our sense of the past, our connections with others, and our unsettled present. They have all been seen, heard, and acclaimed by Irish and British audiences in recent years. Now coming to you in print, some bearing major awards.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612839518481,"sku":"GOR009027388","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653988819217,"sku":"GOR013657649","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49809444405521,"sku":"CIN0953425738G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668609102097,"sku":"NLS9780953425730","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0953425738.jpg?v=1751446268"},{"product_id":"theatre-talk-book-lilian-chambers-9780953425761","title":"Theatre Talk","description":"Interviews with Irish theatre practitioners","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613596295441,"sku":"GOR006932769","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640501412113,"sku":"GOR007221261","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50729612017937,"sku":"GOR014052276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52139123605777,"sku":"NLS9780953425761","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0953425762.jpg?v=1751363632"},{"product_id":"elusive-celt-book-rina-schiller-9781800795723","title":"The Elusive Celt","description":"The Elusive Celt departs from previous work in the wider ethnomusicological field about traditional Irish music within its home contexts by adding a central and eastern European perspective on perceptions of Irish musical culture and images of the Celtic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51719641694481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51719641792785,"sku":"GOR014376377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52404019855633,"sku":"NLS9781800795723","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800795726.jpg?v=1750766801"},{"product_id":"echoes-down-the-corridor-book-patrick-lonergan-9781788749428","title":"Echoes Down the Corridor","description":"This collection of fourteen new essays explores Irish theatre from exciting new perspectives. How has Irish theatre been received internationally - and, as the country becomes more multicultural, how will international theatre influence the development of drama in Ireland? As Ireland changes, how should we think about the works of familiar figures - writers like Synge, O'Casey, Friel, Murphy, Carr, and McGuinness? Is the distinction between popular and literary drama tenable in a Celtic Tiger Ireland where the arts and economics are becoming increasingly intertwined? And is it time to remember less established Irish writers? Drawing together a range of international experts, this book aims to answer these and many other important questions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52085186560273,"sku":"NGR9781788749428","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52409534742801,"sku":"NLS9781788749428","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788749428.jpg?v=1756815279"},{"product_id":"theatre-stuff-book-eamonn-jordan-9781789970289","title":"Theatre Stuff","description":"Irish theatre has never been so successful, yet at the same time never more in need of rigorous evaluation. Many of the plays by Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, Anne Devlin, Sebastian Barry, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh (LondonIrish), Marina Carr, Billy Roche and Marie Jones have been critically acclaimed and won substantial awards. In addition, Irish directors, designers, actors and administrators have worked at some of the best theatres in the world and with some of the most talented professionals available. In this comprehensive collection of essays, playwrights, directors, journalists, theatre practitioners, critics and academics, from many different countries and backgrounds, give their perceptive points of view. Each contributor takes an approach which is passionate, idiosyncratic, astute, provocative and refreshing. All of the writing, in one way or another, hints at the demands, magic, urgency and ephemeral qualities of good theatre. This extremely valuable collection of accessible essays will promote discussion and is a timely and welcome addition to the critical debate on Irish drama.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52085187117329,"sku":"NGR9781789970289","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52455987675409,"sku":"NLS9781789970289","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970289.jpg?v=1756815282"},{"product_id":"irish-appropriation-of-greek-tragedy-book-brian-arkins-9781788748704","title":"Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy","description":"This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of todays leading writers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52085206417681,"sku":"NGR9781788748704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52453885313297,"sku":"NLS9781788748704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748704.jpg?v=1756815377"},{"product_id":"theatre-stuff-critical-essays-on-contemporary-irish-theatre-book-jordan-eamonn-9780953425716","title":"Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138280943889,"sku":"NLS9780953425716","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780953425716.jpg?v=1757561807"},{"product_id":"ireland-s-economic-crisis-time-to-act-book-joe-mulholland-9781789970562","title":"Ireland's Economic Crisis - Time to Act.","description":"«...a seminar worthy of Harvard, Yale or Oxbridge.»   DEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN, THE IRISH TIMES      «Without clear political leadership, the current economic crisis and the challenges of globalization might actually undermine some of the foundations of democracy.»   DR DIARMUID MARTIN, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN      «As a former Chairman of AIB, the first thing for me to say in plain and unvarnished language is that some serious mistakes were made in Irish banking and there is no getting away from that.»   DERMOT GLEESON SC      «We have to have the best teachers teaching in the subjects vital to the country’s interests. From my perspective these are the STEM subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.»   JIM O’HARA, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, INTEL (IRELAND)      «Certain professions have yet to play their part and have yet to tell us how they will reduce their fees and charges.»   MARY COUGHLAN TD, TÁNAISTE AND MINISTER FOR ENTERPRISE, TRADE \u0026amp; EMPLOYMENT      «The litany of bad practice we have since learned about, pertaining to activities within the banking sector, has varied from the incompetent to the morally suspect to the illegal.»   SENATOR DAN BOYLE, CHAIRMAN GREEN PARTY      «The first; where did all the money go? The second; will anyone go to jail? The first is easy to answer; it was never there in the first place. The second is tricky; we do not know yet.»   DAVID MURPHY, BUSINESS EDITOR, RTÉ      «In the end, when it comes to day-to-day expenditure, a state is like a household, it has to live within its means.»   BRIAN LENIHAN TD, MINISTER FOR FINANCE      «We built a strong, open, exporting economy but it was hijacked by property developers and speculators.»   EAMON GILMORE TD, LEADER LABOUR PARTY","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52153334432017,"sku":"NLS9781789970562","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970562.jpg?v=1757619781"},{"product_id":"irish-theatre-in-england-book-richard-cave-9781788749282","title":"Irish Theatre in England","description":"\u003cp\u003eContents - Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Richard Cave and Ben Levitas: Introduction - Ben Levitas: These Islands' Others: \u003ci\u003eJohn Bull\u003c\/i\u003e, the Abbey and the Royal Court - Michael McAteer: 'Stranger in the House' Alienation and History in \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Heart's Desire \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCathleen ni Houlihan - \u003c\/i\u003ePeter Kuch: The Irish Players and the Conquest of London - Jonathan D. H. Statham: Folds in Dispersion: Yeatsian Remnants in London - Graham Saunders: Reclaiming Sam for Ireland: \u003ci\u003eThe Beckett on Film \u003c\/i\u003eProject - Tim Miles: Understanding Loyalty: The English Response to the Work of Gary Mitchell - Wallace McDowell: Traditional Routes: Challenges and Re-affirmations in the Representation of the Ulster Protestant - Jerry Nolan: The English\/Irish Ring and Its Victorian Popularity - Elizabeth Schafer: An Irish Jig? Edris Stannus, Ninette de Valois and the English Royal Ballet - Cathy Leeney: Not-So-Gay-Young-Things: Mary Manning's \u003ci\u003eYouth's the Season・? \u003c\/i\u003eas staged in 1930s London - Carmen Szabó Doublings: Problematic Identities in Thomas Kilroy's \u003ci\u003eDouble Cross \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre - \u003c\/i\u003eEnrica Cerquoni: The Transience of the Visual Image in Touring Theatre: Brian Friel's \u003ci\u003eDancing at Lughnasa - \u003c\/i\u003ePeter James Harris: Chronological Table Of Irish Plays Produced In London 1920-2006 - Contributors - Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52154788118801,"sku":"NLS9781788749282","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788749282.jpg?v=1757629792"},{"product_id":"irish-harp-book-book-sheila-larchet-cuthbert-9781789971019","title":"The Irish Harp Book","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52154790412561,"sku":"NLS9781789971019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789971019.jpg?v=1757629798"},{"product_id":"theatre-stuff-book-eamonn-jordan-9781789970166","title":"Theatre Stuff","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52154807779601,"sku":"NLS9781789970166","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970166.jpg?v=1757629846"},{"product_id":"irish-theatre-international-vol-3-no-1-autumn-2014-book-miriam-haughton-9781788748155","title":"Irish Theatre International Vol. 3 No.1 Autumn 2014","description":"Articles: «The Cries of Pagan Desperation»: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the Discontents of Historical Time by Christopher Collins; Scenographic Interactions: 1950s Ireland and Dublin's Pike Theatre by Siobhan O'Gorman; Uneasy Bedfellows: Culture, Commerce and the Rise of the «Production Hub» Paradigm in Irish Theatre by Lisa Fitzgerald; Respond or Else: Conor MacPherson's The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse by Eamonn Jordan; Gay Masculinities in Performance: Towards a Queer Dramaturgy by Cormac O'Brien; Perform, or Else! Reflections from an Irish theatre maker by Neil Watkins.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52340110491921,"sku":"NLS9781788748155","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748155.jpg?v=1758191788"},{"product_id":"sullied-magnificence-book-sarah-keating-9781788747837","title":"Sullied Magnificence","description":"Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O'Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O'Rowe's collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role of the actor and director in monologue theatre. It questions the use of violence in O'Rowe's films and plays. It explores influences and inspirations, and provides a thorough introduction to the work of one of Ireland's most unique theatrical voices. It also takes a brief look at O'Rowe's work for film, as both writer and director, and the crossover effect this work has had on his plays.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52351752175889,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52351753224465,"sku":"NLS9781788747837","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747837.jpg?v=1758181289"},{"product_id":"deviant-acts-book-david-cregan-9781788748827","title":"Deviant Acts","description":"This book contains an exciting collection of essays focusing on a variety of alternative performances happening in contemporary Ireland. While it highlights the particular representations of gay and lesbian identity it also brings to light how diversity has always been part of Irish culture and is, in fact, shaping what it means to be Irish today. Inside there are provocative chapters from scholars, theatre producers, and theatre artists from around the world analysing everything from the drag scene in Dublin to the Gay Pride Parades in Belfast. Cathleen Ni Houlihan will never be the same!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52407638688017,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52407639343377,"sku":"NLS9781788748827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748827.jpg?v=1758772731"},{"product_id":"stanislavski-in-ireland-book-brian-mcavera-9781788748193","title":"Stanislavski in Ireland","description":"This book is an insight into Ireland's only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs and photographs, the book tracks the theatre from its inception, detailing the period under its founder Deirdre O'Connell and then the period following Joe Devlin's arrival as its new artistic director.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52408487444753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52408496849169,"sku":"NLS9781788748193","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748193.jpg?v=1770372457"},{"product_id":"gate-theatre-dublin-book-david-clare-9781788746243","title":"The Gate Theatre, Dublin","description":"The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland's major theatres. It has plays by such figures as Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Denis Johnston - while also premiering significant works including unjustly-neglected female dramatists such as Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura Laverty. It is the very first scholarly essay collection devoted to it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52408548065553,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52408555798801,"sku":"NLS9781788746243","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788746243.jpg?v=1758774673"},{"product_id":"ceol-phadraig-book-john-buckley-9781789975659","title":"Ceol Phadraig","description":"The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52408841339153,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52408853856529,"sku":"NLS9781789975659","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789975659.jpg?v=1758774754"},{"product_id":"because-we-are-poor-book-victor-merriman-9781788748582","title":"Because We Are Poor","description":"Throughout the twentieth century, Irish theatre was fully engaged with the pressing questions of independence - how to achieve it, and how the gap between what was desired and what was settled for might be addressed.   In Because We Are Poor, Victor Merriman reads Ireland's postcoloniality as a state of critical desire for a postponed project of decolonization in Independent Ireland. He develops insights from Awam Amkpa, Luke Gibbons, Peadar Kirby, Joe Lee, David Lloyd and others to argue that Irish theatre is staged in a neo-colonial social order, dominated by economic analyses and public policies designed to secure the position of indigenous elites, usually at the expense of the majority of Irish people.    Theatre emerges as a key site in which the contradictions arising from frustrated but enduring desires are embodied, enacted and enabled. During the 1990s, the state's monopoly on public discourse in Independent Ireland comes under severe pressure, with hitherto marginal concerns appropriating public space and demanding to be heard. Irish theatre responds to the range and diversity of those voices, to the extent that the Review of Theatre in Ireland (1995-1996) envisages a National Theatre in dialogue with a Theatre of the Nation.   The expanded theatrical activity of the 1990s is the focus of Because We Are Poor, and the author's intimate involvement in that moment, as scholar, practitioner, and policy-maker makes the analysis offered here especially compelling. This book brings together concerns which the author has worked to articulate in Irish theatre criticism.   It critiques contemporary appropriations of the postcolonial, or post-colonial, among scholars of Irish drama, and proposes a nuanced postcolonial critical practice, challenging critical vocabularies applied to Irish drama. The book addresses the role, crises and potential of Irish theatre, as the cultural and political consequences of globalization manifest themselves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52409332728081,"sku":"NLS9781788748582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748582.jpg?v=1758774796"},{"product_id":"what-shakespeare-stole-from-rome-book-brian-arkins-9781788748483","title":"What Shakespeare Stole From Rome","description":"What Shakespeare Stole From Rome analyses the multiple ways Shakespeare used material from Roman history and Latin poetry in his plays and poems. Three important tragedies deal with the history of the Roman Republic: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. From the tragedies of Seneca, Shakespeare took the theme of evil in the ruler, as in Richard III and Macbeth. The comedies of Plautus lie behind the early play The Comedy of Errors. From Ovid, Shakespeare took nearly all his Greek mythology, as in the miniature epic Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare, who knew Latin very well, introduced some 600 new Latin-based words into English.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52409531498769,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52409531859217,"sku":"NLS9781788748483","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748483.jpg?v=1770285409"},{"product_id":"i-love-craft-i-love-the-word-book-lisa-fitzpatrick-9781800796263","title":"'I love craft. I love the word'","description":"In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Deirdre Kinahan's plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of family, class, ethnicity, age and gender in the 21st century neoliberal, secular state.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52409952043281,"sku":"NLS9781800796263","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781800796263.jpg?v=1758776328"},{"product_id":"for-the-sake-of-sanity-book-eric-weitz-9781788748117","title":"For the Sake of Sanity","description":"Humour claims no ideological affiliation – its workings merit inspection in any and every individual case, in light of the who, what, where and when of a joke, including the manner of performance, the socio-cultural context, the dynamic amongst participants, and who knows how many other factors particular to the instance. There are as many insights to be gained from the deployment of humour in performance as people to think about it – so herein lie a healthy handful of responses from a variety of perspectives.   For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance assembles a range of essays from practitioners, academics, and journalists, all of whom address the attempt to make an audience laugh in various Irish contexts over the past century. With a general emphasis on theatre, the collection also includes essays on film, television and stand-up comedy for those insights into practice, society and culture revealed uniquely through instances of humour in performance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410246201617,"sku":"NLS9781788748117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748117.jpg?v=1758777256"},{"product_id":"blue-raincoat-theatre-company-book-rhona-trench-9781788748032","title":"Blue Raincoat Theatre Company","description":"This book explores the marvellously textured and complex nature of Blue Raincoat Theatre's work, set design, costumes and lighting, revealing the magic that results from their unique style of theatre making.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410565099793,"sku":"NLS9781788748032","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748032.jpg?v=1758778606"},{"product_id":"ceol-phadraig-book-john-buckley-9781789976229","title":"Ceol Phadraig","description":"The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52410568507665,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410568966417,"sku":"NLS9781789976229","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789976229.jpg?v=1758778821"},{"product_id":"across-the-boundaries-book-guy-woodward-9781788748070","title":"Across the Boundaries","description":"Thomas Kilroy’s long and distinguished career is celebrated in this volume by new essays, panel discussions and an interview, reconsidering the work of one of Ireland’s most intellectually ambitious and technically imaginative playwrights. Contributors are drawn from both the academic and theatrical spheres, and include Nicholas Grene, Wayne Jordan, Patrick Mason, Christopher Murray and Lynne Parker.    This volume follows Kilroy’s own practice of connecting the creative and the critical, and publishes for the first time an extract from his play «Blake». Illustrated with photographs from major productions, this book also reproduces previously unseen materials from the Thomas Kilroy Collection held in the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52410581778705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410582073617,"sku":"NLS9781788748070","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748070.jpg?v=1758778731"},{"product_id":"synge-and-his-influences-book-patrick-lonergan-9781788748544","title":"Synge and His Influences","description":"The year 2009 was the centenary of the death of John Millington Synge, one of the world’s great dramatists. To mark the occasion, this book gathers essays by leading scholars of Irish drama, aiming to explore the writers and movements that shaped Synge, and to consider his enduring legacies. Essays discuss Synge’s work in its Irish, European and world contexts – showing his engagement not just with the Irish literary revival but with European politics and culture too. The book also explores Synge’s influence on later writers: Irish dramatists such as Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Marina Carr, as well as international writers like Mustapha Matura and Erisa Kironde. It also considers Synge’s place in Ireland today, revealing how The Playboy of the Western World has helped to shape Ireland’s responses to globalisation and multiculturalism, in celebrated productions by the Abbey Theatre, Druid theatre, and Pan Pan theatre company.   Contributors include Ann Saddlemyer, Ben Levitas, Mary Burke, Paige Reynolds, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mark Phelan, Shaun Richards, Ondvrej Piln´y, Richard Pine, Alexandra Poulain, Emilie Pine, Melissa Sihra, Sara Keating, Bisi Adigun, Adrian Frazier and Anthony Roche.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52410596589841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52410596851985,"sku":"NLS9781788748544","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748544.jpg?v=1758778935"},{"product_id":"theatre-of-martin-mcdonagh-book-lilian-chambers-9781788749541","title":"The Theatre of Martin McDonagh","description":"With such plays as The Beauty Queen (1996), The cripple of Irishman (1997), The Lonesome West (1997), A skull in Connemara (1997), The Lieutenant of Irishmore (2001), and The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh has made a huge reputation for himself internationally, winning multiple awards for his work and enjoying universal critical acclaim. Most recently, he won an Oscar for his short film, Six Shooter (2006).   This Collection of essays is a vital and significant response to the many challenges set by McDonagh for those involved in the production and reception of his work.   The volume brings together critics and commentators from around the world, who assess the work from a diverse range of often provocative approaches. What is not surprising is the focus and commitment of the engagement, given this controversial and stimulating nature of the work.   Whether for or against, this is an essential read for all who wish to enter the complex debate about Theatre of Martin McDonagh.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52425116680465,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52425117303057,"sku":"NLS9781788749541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788749541.jpg?v=1759227661"},{"product_id":"who-telleth-a-tale-of-unspeaking-death-book-wolfgang-marx-9781789970326","title":"Who Telleth a Tale of Unspeaking Death?","description":"Death is silent; all the ‘tales’ we hear about it – be they of a religious, philosophical, scientific or artistic nature – are told by other humans. but specific deaths are often utilised to reconfirm or challenge existing societal structures, values and belief systems. the eight ‘tales’ collated here – based on the work of the Research Strand Death, Burial and the Afterlife at University College Dublin’s College of arts and humanities – present numerous interdisciplinary examples of how this process works.   The topics of the essays include the ideological orientations of Irish political funerals; the death rites of Cameroonian immigrants at home and in dublin; the Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona’s success in turning a Roman church into his own funeral monument; the role that Alexis de Tocqueville’s death played in his emergence as an iconic political theorist; the philosopher Josef Pieper’s attempt to approach the mystery of death through idealist thinking, the changing human attitudes towards the death of animals; the use of war maps as marketing devices during the Second World War; and the critique of political and societal structures embedded in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Berliner Requiem.   This thought-provoking volume of essays, wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, engages with questions surrounding the many meanings ascribed to death and the memorialisation of the dead. In its eight essays, it traverses whole thought-continents: from those who muse that ‘death has happened since the beginning of time; it is not to upset you　today’ to the stark presentation of a reality which erodes the human face and thus a person's individuality. What clearly emerges are the many respects in which death itself has been and, indeed, remains, contested ground (both literally and metaphorically). This collection is an important contribution to the ever-expanding field of studies on Death and Dying.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52425348776209,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52425349529873,"sku":"NLS9781789970326","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970326.jpg?v=1759231782"},{"product_id":"sean-keating-in-context-book-eimear-o-connor-9781789970609","title":"Sean Keating in Context","description":"Seán Keating in Context: Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil War Ireland offers, for the first time, a comprehensive compilation and contextual analysis of Keating’s articles and broadcasts between 1924 and1972. The introduction to the book examines the context of his thoughts on culture, politics, and economics. Moreover, given the present economic conditions in Ireland and further afield, the content of Keating’s articles and broadcasts is prophetic, poignant, and amusing. The book is a precursor to the author’s forthcoming full-scale monograph on the artist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52452434510097,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52452435034385,"sku":"NLS9781789970609","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970609.jpg?v=1759364719"},{"product_id":"mirror-up-to-nature-book-patrick-burke-9781789970524","title":"Mirror up to Nature","description":"Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland's contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera and its history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52452515021073,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52452515938577,"sku":"NLS9781789970524","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970524.jpg?v=1759364968"},{"product_id":"three-congregational-masses-book-lorraine-byrne-9781789970975","title":"Three Congregational Masses","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52452535533841,"sku":"NLS9781789970975","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970975.jpg?v=1759365033"},{"product_id":"radical-contemporary-theatre-practices-by-women-in-ireland-book-miriam-haughton-9781788747950","title":"Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices By Women In Ireland","description":"A useful and provocative book that collects the diverse and related practices of theatre makers and theatre professionals deserving of greater attention from artists, teachers and scholars. (Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival and President of IETM)   Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland. The essays and interviews explore the work of women directors, designers, and playwrights on both sides of the Irish Border, who are currently shaping theatre practice on the island. By gathering such an impressive range of material, Mária Kurdi and Miriam Haughton have produced a collection that offers a snapshot of radical practice on the Irish stage in the early 21st century. (Lisa Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, University of Ulster)","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52453913428241,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52453914050833,"sku":"NLS9781788747950","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747950.jpg?v=1759369513"},{"product_id":"theatre-of-conor-mcpherson-book-lilian-chambers-9781788748278","title":"The Theatre of Conor McPherson","description":"Multiple productions and the international successes of plays like The Weir have led to Conor McPherson being regarded by many as one of the finest writers of his generation. McPherson has also been hugely prolific as a theatre director, as a screenwriter and film director, garnering many awards in these different roles.   In this collection of essays, commentators from around the world address the substantial range of McPherson’s output to date in theatre and film, a body of work written primarily during and in the aftermath of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger period. These critics approach the work in challenging and dynamic ways, considering the crucial issues of morality, the rupturing of the real, storytelling, and the significance of space, violence and gender. Explicit considerations are given to comedy and humour, and to theatrical form, especially that of the monologue and to the ways that the otherworldly, the unconscious and the supernatural are accommodated dramaturgically, with frequent emphasis placed on the specific aspects of performance in both theatre and film.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52453945508113,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52453945901329,"sku":"NLS9781788748278","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748278.jpg?v=1759369608"},{"product_id":"community-of-the-imagination-book-lorraine-byrne-bodley-9781789970845","title":"A Community of the Imagination","description":"In this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Seoirse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52454050398481,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454051479825,"sku":"NLS9781789970845","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970845.jpg?v=1759369939"},{"product_id":"hazardous-melody-of-being-book-lorraine-byrne-bodley-9781789970890","title":"A Hazardous Melody of Being","description":"Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song cycles. It assesses the joint contribution to Irish art song and seeks to understand its roots in and departure from European tradition.      This apograph is the first publication of Bodley's O'Siadhail song cycles and is the first book to explore the composer's lyrical modernity from a number of perspectives. Lorraine Byrne Bodley's insightful introduction describes in detail the development and essence of Bodley's musical thinking, the European influences he absorbed which linger in these cycles, and the importance of his work as a composer of Irish art song. She asks an array of questions: Does song play a new role in twentieth-century music or was this the age, as many have insisted, that bears witness to the «death of song»? How does contemporary Irish art song inscribe individual concerns and mirror the influence of dominant social trends through its music and its texts? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the context in which these cycles were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Through a blend of close analysis of Bodley's songs and wide-ranging engagement with both poetry and music, this book sheds new light on Bodley's integral part in fashioning Irish art song. It analyses the way Bodley's song has been harnessed both to legitimate and to challenge national art song. And it identifies elements of Bodley's musical style which are shaped by European tradition.      Beyond such musico-poetic analysis, Lorraine Byrne Bodley's reading of the threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution opens up a «braided history» of Irish art song, where song is not an aesthetic given but a means to understanding the changing patterns of life. She argues convincingly that an understanding of the way in which Irish society has perceived song in recent centuries is available through a consideration of song as social document, and in her appraisal of Bodley's O'Siadhail settings she considers the importance of these song cycles as a reflection of Ireland's rich cultural history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52454122619153,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454123176209,"sku":"NLS9781789970890","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970890.jpg?v=1759370182"},{"product_id":"irish-theatre-international-book-paul-murphy-9781788748919","title":"Irish Theatre International","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52454138052881,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454138577169,"sku":"NLS9781788748919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748919.jpg?v=1759370230"},{"product_id":"goethe-musical-poet-musical-catalyst-book-lorraine-byrne-9781789971057","title":"Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst","description":"«It was a great pleasure both to host and to participate in an international conference that brought together musicologists, composers, performers, and literary artists in stimulating and thought-provoking discourse. The collaboration of our colleagues from Queen’s University, Belfast, was particularly welcome and appreciated; they, together with distinguished international Goethians, contributed much to what was a unique 36 hours of intellectual and artistic dialogue.»   Professor Gerard Gillen, Chair of Music, National University of Ireland Maynooth \u0026amp; Titular Organist of Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral      «Goethe’s influence on the musical world is far reaching. While it seems impossible to grasp the full extent of his legacy, a sense of optimism was in the air at the Maynooth conference where we were entertained by a series of highly stimulating papers and concerts, exploring some fascinating details of Goethe’s world and his unique contributions to music. It was indeed a rare opportunity to have had such a wonderful mix of scholarly exchanges on a literary giant, Goethe, who continues to enrich our lives through his creative output.»   Dr Yo Tomita, Reader in Music, Queen’s University Belfast      «I have long been conscious of the modernity of much of Goethe’s writing and aware of the very direct message it can deliver to a 21st century man or woman. In particular the characters of both Mignon and the Harper in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre speak to us of an all-too-familiar sense of fractured identity. It was therefore with especial pleasure that I undertook the musical setting of Goethe’s poems associated with these two vivid characters for performance at the conference. What a wonderful opportunity was afforded me to present a first performance of Goethe settings before an audience that included so many distinguished scholars of the great German writer!»   Seóirse Bodley, Composer and Emeritus Professor of Music, University College Dublin      «Musical performance is a fundamental part of human existence, yet years of learning and preparation lie behind it. The interpretation of music requires decisions – conscious and\/or intuitive – about the meaning of musical features as well as knowledge of the historical context in which the music was written. The unique interaction of theory and practice in this conference offered scholars and performers an opportunity to unravel the complexities of performance together, and to bring to light aspects of learning and playing. Each of the authors in this volume is a leading expert in the field, and the performers, who illustrated their lectures with recitals, were of considerable experience and renown. All of these factors ensure that the essays in this volume are vital, cogent, and musically challenging.»   John O’Conor, Pianist and Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music      «Goethe was interested in, and acutely aware of, the place of music in human experience generally – and of its particular role in modern culture. Moreover, his own literary work - especially the poetry and ‘Faust’ – inspired some of the major composers of the European tradition to produce some of their finest works. What is it about Goethe’s texts that invites a transformation into music? Perhaps it is his extraordinary combination of emotional immediacy and intense reflectivity. To that combination, and to the perennially fascinating question of what happens in the interplay between words and music, this volume of essays bears abundant witness.»   Martin Swales, Emeritus Professor of German, University College London","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454190678289,"sku":"NLS9781789971057","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789971057.jpg?v=1759370406"},{"product_id":"devised-performance-in-irish-theatre-book-charlotte-mcivor-9781788747912","title":"Devised Performance in Irish Theatre","description":"Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively on devised theatre throughout the island of Ireland by bringing together a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. It situates the histories and contemporary practice of devised performance in the Irish theatre, responding to a decisive shift in the working approach of several prominent emerging companies including ANU Productions, Brokentalkers, THEATREclub, and THISISPOPBABY. This collection takes a historical approach that demonstrates how this contemporary surge of work builds on a physical and dance theatre movement in Irish theatre that began to coalesce in the 1990s through the work of companies like Barabbas, Macnas, Blue Raincoat, and Pan Pan which was in turn influenced by earlier community arts practice on the island of Ireland beginning in the late 1970s. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre makes visible a uniquely Irish body of work that will also further international understandings of devised performance as collaborative process and working methodology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52455849853201,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52455850279185,"sku":"NLS9781788747912","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747912.jpg?v=1759375529"},{"product_id":"theatre-of-marie-jones-book-eugene-mcnulty-9781788747998","title":"The Theatre of Marie Jones","description":"Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a major role in theatre-in-education through her plays for Replay Productions. From her earliest work with Charabanc in the early 1980s to the present day, Jones’s work has engaged with Irish (and, more often than not, specifically Northern Irish) experience in ways that reveal the extent to which the personal is political in a distinctive form of popular theatre. This volume of essays engages critically with Jones’s oeuvre, her reception in Ireland and beyond, and her position in the canon of contemporary drama.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52455864369425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52455865024785,"sku":"NLS9781788747998","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747998.jpg?v=1759375573"},{"product_id":"breaking-boundaries-book-steven-dedalus-burch-9781788747523","title":"Breaking Boundaries","description":"This collection of seven plays show that there is no singular Focus Theatre play or playwright, including various styles from monologues on New York, 2001 to the fantastical world of Lewis Carroll.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52456050458897,"sku":"NLS9781788747523","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747523.jpg?v=1759376147"},{"product_id":"ibsen-and-chekov-on-the-irish-stage-book-ros-dixon-9781788747561","title":"Ibsen and Chekov on the Irish Stage","description":"This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the national canon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52456059568401,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52456060223761,"sku":"NLS9781788747561","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747561.jpg?v=1759376179"},{"product_id":"death-and-marriage-book-brian-arkins-9781788747448","title":"Death and Marriage","description":"This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists. The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with Greek tragedy of the fifth century BCE, but also with Seneca's tragedies of the first century CE. The book also deals with two types of Greek comedy: the comedy of ideas in Aristophanes, and the later social comedy of Menander, this being appropriated in Rome by the comic dramatists Plautus and Terence. The tragedies and comedies of fifth century Athens do not endorse the official ideology of the city. They raise questions about the position of women, the never ending war with Sparta, the nature of religious belief. Crucial here is the depiction by Euripides and by Sophocles of powerful women characters, female intruders who disrupt the male world: Medea, Antigone, Electra, Lysistrata. Comic drama usually concludes on a positive note: with marriage, with plenty of food and drink.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52456091910417,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52456092467473,"sku":"NLS9781788747448","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788747448.jpg?v=1770373825"},{"product_id":"life-remembered-book-mary-rose-aranson-9781788746847","title":"A Life Remembered","description":"«Perhaps the greatest actor-manager of his time», wrote the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter, whose first job in the theatre was with Anew McMaster’s classical theatre company and whose little book, called Mac, Pinter published as a tribute to him after his death. For over thirty years «Mac», as he was known, toured the Irish provinces giving the country people their first sight of Shakespeare. Anew McMaster died over fifty years ago, and though he figures largely in biographies by Micheal O’hAodha, Simon Callow and his brother-in-law, Micheál MacLiammóir, he has not had, as yet, a full book devoted to his life and work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52655163113745,"sku":"NLS9781788746847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788746847.jpg?v=1770372215"},{"product_id":"beethoven-s-irish-songs-revisited-book-margaret-farrell-9781788746434","title":"Beethoven's Irish Songs Revisited","description":"Beethoven's seventy-two settings of traditional Irish airs constitute his most prolific output in any genre. The arrangements were commissioned in the early nineteenth century by the Scottish editor and publisher, George Thomson, who sent airs, but no texts, to Beethoven. Poetry, mostly by less well-known poets, was attached to the finished settings before publication by Thomson, and perhaps therein lies the reason why the songs never achieved the popularity which they deserve: many of the poems have been judged to be of inferior quality. In this edition, the first in which all Beethoven's Irish folksong settings are published together, the late baritone, broadcaster and musicologist, Tom s   S illeabh in, selected texts, mostly by Burns and Moore, which he felt were more appropriate to the airs and to Beethoven's settings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52655295529233,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52655296086289,"sku":"NLS9781788746434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788746434.jpg?v=1762219922"},{"product_id":"irish-drama-book-nicholas-grene-9781788748438","title":"Irish Drama","description":"Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Essays discuss some of Ireland’s major theatre companies – Druid, the Abbey Theatre, Rough Magic, Blue Raincoat, Field Day and others – while also exploring the presence of Irish drama in the UK, the USA, Germany, and throughout Ireland. The volume also presents the views of key playwrights, featuring essays by Elizabeth Kuti and Ursula Rani Sarma, and including a new interview with Enda Walsh.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52663116595473,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52663117775121,"sku":"NLS9781788748438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748438.jpg?v=1762271181"},{"product_id":"goethe-musical-poet-musical-catalyst-book-lorraine-byrne-9781904505105","title":"Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52667100463377,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52667101643025,"sku":"NLS9781904505105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781904505105.jpg?v=1762281702"},{"product_id":"plays-and-controversies-book-ben-barnes-9781788748995","title":"Plays and Controversies","description":"In diaries covering the period of his artistic directorship of the Abbey (2000-2005) Ben Barnes offers a frank, honest, probing account of a much commented upon and controversial period in the history of the national theatre. These diaries also provide fascinating personal insights into the day to day pressures, joys and frustrations of running one of Ireland’s most iconic institutions. For over a century now the Abbey has conducted its love\/hate relationship with the Irish public and the wider international audience, and in Plays and Controversies Ben Barnes illuminates his own eventful chapter in that absorbing story.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52668454895889,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668455944465,"sku":"NLS9781788748995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781788748995.jpg?v=1762285062"},{"product_id":"harmony-notes-book-1-book-marie-moran-9781800795563","title":"Harmony Notes Book 1","description":"Harmony Notes Book 1 offers a fresh engaging approach to the study of four-part vocal harmony. The presentation of material is clear, uncomplicated, and follows a carefully graded sequence.   Each topic is supported by worked examples incorporating detailed explanations of good practice. Each stage is underpinned by recordings of the material, fostering a musical understanding and encouraging a holistic approach – emphasising the necessary link between sound and symbol. To this end, tonic solfa is used extensively throughout the text as an effective tool to navigate the sound.   Exercises are built into each chapter at strategic points to assist with the learning, absorption and application of the topic at hand. The exercises move from easy to more challenging as the chapters progress.     ‘Lightbulb’ moments flag essential grammatical points, while ‘checklist boxes’ summarise important features providing a useful revision tool.   Although Harmony Notes deals primarily with vocal writing, the scope of the book expands at three points to embrace simple analysis looking at the application of the harmony in the context of piano music and string quartet.      Resources to supplement Harmony Notes Book 1   The musical examples in the main body of the book are recorded by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These recordings are available online and are intended to be listened to while studying the various topics. The three pillars of analysis are also available to be listened to online while studying the scores.   Furthermore, the student exercises are also made available as downloads. Supplementary exercises contained in the appendices. These relate to chapters 5, 7, 8, 14, 16 and 17, where some possible solutions are offered.             Chapters:      CHAPTER 1 Exercises   CHAPTER 2 Exercises   CHAPTER 3 Exercises   CHAPTER 4 Exercises   CHAPTER 5 Exercises   CHAPTER 6 Exercises   CHAPTER 6 Analysis exercises   CHAPTER 7 Exercises   CHAPTER 8 Exercises   CHAPTER 9 Exercises   CHAPTER 10 Exercises   CHAPTER 11 Exercises   CHAPTER 12 Exercises   CHAPTER 12 Analysis exercises   CHAPTER 13 Exercises   CHAPTER 14 Exercises   CHAPTER 15 Exercises   CHAPTER 16 Exercises   CHAPTER 17 Exercises   CHAPTER 17 Analysis exercises       Audios:      Audio 1.1   Audio 1.2   Audio 2.1   Audio 2.2   Audio 2.3   Audio 2.4   Audio 2.5   Audio 2.6   Audio 2.7   Audio 2.8   Audio 2.9   Audio 2.10   Audio 3.1   Audio 3.2   Audio 3.3   Audio 3.4   Audio 3.5   Audio 3.6   Audio 3.7   Audio 3.8   Audio 3.9   Audio 4.1   Audio 4.2   Audio 4.3   Audio 4.4   Audio 4.5   Audio 4.6   Audio 4.7   Audio 4.8   Audio 4.9   Audio 4.10   Audio 4.11   Audio 5.1   Audio 5.2   Audio 5.3   Audio 5.4   Audio 5.5   Audio 5.6   Audio 5.7   Audio 6.1   Audio 6.2   Audio 6.3   Audio 6.4   Audio 6.5   Audio 6.6   Audio 6.7   Audio 6.8   Audio 6.9   Audio 6.10   Audio 6.11   Audio 6.12   Audio 6.13   Audio 6.14   Audio 6.15   Audio 6.16   Audio 6.17   Audio 7.1   Audio 7.2   Audio 7.3   Audio 7.4   Audio 7.5   Audio 7.6   Audio 7.7   Audio 8.1   Audio 8.2   Audio 8.3   Audio 8.4   Audio 8.5   Audio 8.6   Audio 8.7   Audio 8.8   Audio 8.9   Audio 8.10   Audio 8.11   Audio 9.1   Audio 9.2   Audio 9.3   Audio 9.4   Audio 10.1   Audio 10.2   Audio 10.3   Audio 10.4   Audio 10.5   Audio 10.6   Audio 10.7   Audio 11.1   Audio 11.2   Audio 11.3   Audio 11.4   Audio 11.5   Audio 11.6   Audio 11.7   Audio 12.1   Audio 12.2   Audio 12.3   Audio 12.4   Audio 12.5   Audio 12.6   Audio 12.7   Audio 12.8   Audio 12.9   Audio 12.10   Audio 12.11   Audio 12.12   Audio 12.13   Audio 12.14   Audio 12.15   Audio 12.16   Audio 13.1   Audio 13.2   Audio 13.3   Audio 13.4   Audio 14.1   Audio 14.2   Audio 14.3   Audio 14.4   Audio 14.5   Audio 15.1   Audio 15.2   Audio 15.3   Audio 16.1   Audio 16.2   Audio 16.3   Audio 16.4   Audio 16.5   Audio 16.6   Audio 16.7   Audio 16.8   Audio 16.9   Audio 17.1   Audio 17.2   Audio 17.3   Audio 17.4   Audio 17.5   Audio 17.6   Audio 17.7   Audio 17.8   Audio 17.9   Audio 17.10   Audio 17.11   Audio 17.12   Audio 17.13   Audio 17.14   Audio 17.15   Audio 17.16   Audio 17.17   Audio 17.18   Audio 17.19   Audio 17.20   Audio 17.21   Audio 17.22   Audio 17.23   Audio 17.24   Audio 17.25","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668765569297,"sku":"NLS9781800795563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781800795563.jpg?v=1762285873"},{"product_id":"proserpina-book-lorraine-byrne-bodley-9781789970937","title":"Proserpina","description":"In his early twenties Goethe wrote Proserpina for the Weimar court singer Corona Schröter to perform. His interest in presenting Weimar’s first professional singer-inresidence in a favourable light was not the only reason why this monologue with music (now lost) by Seckendorff is important. Goethe’s memories of his sister Cornelia, who had recently died in childbirth, were in fact the real catalyst: through this work Goethe could level accusations against his parents about Cornelia’s marriage, of which he had not approved. Goethe used the melodramatic form to transform private and cultural issues for women of the time into public discourses and so to manipulate public opinion. His work reveals an astute understanding of musical melodrama and the important impact it had on the cultural dynamics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.   Whatever the source of inspiration, it is clear that Goethe was very preoccupied with Proserpina. When he returned to this melodrama forty years later he collaborated closely with Carl Eberwein, the court, theatre, and church music director, who composed a new setting which accords with Goethe’s clear understanding of musical declamation in 19th century melodrama. In the intensive collaboration which took place while the production was being prepared in January 1815, Goethe was already anticipating the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk. He paid close attention to every aspect of the production, especially to its music and its staging. When discussing contemporary settings of the poet’s works, scholars often lapse into regret that Goethe did not have someone of comparable rank at his side for musical collaborations. Yet Eberwein’s willingness to go along with Goethe’s wishes was an advantage here: the selfless striving of the young composer to satisfy the poet’s intentions is everywhere apparent in the score and it is the nearest thing we have to a ‘composition by Goethe’.   Despite critics’ positive reception of the first performance on 4 February 1815, the work has never been published before. Musically and dramatically this unknown melodrama is a superb work for solo voice, choir, and orchestra, and deserves to be brought before the public today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52670209523985,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52670210244881,"sku":"NLS9781789970937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781789970937.jpg?v=1762337331"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-carysfort-press-ltd.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}