Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice
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1993
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811245-7 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811245-7 (ISBN)
This volume contains eight of Louis MacNeice's best plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio. It draws on the most authoritative texts. Alan Heuser is the editor of "Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice" and "Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice".
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best-known plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws on the most authoritative texts to provide a much-needed reminder of the power of his dramatic writing.
All the plays are published here in authentic versions for the first time, several considerably changed, and two entirely new plays, never before published.
The volume comprises MacNeice's famous The Dark Tower, published here for the first time in its third and final version; the saga play They Met on Good Friday and the parable The Mad Islands, both of which use explicitly Irish subject-matter; the stage play One for the Grave, which mercilessly satirizes television and commercialism; the epic Christopher Columbus; He Had a Date (in its second version), an experiment in radio biography; Prisoner's Progress, a prize-winning parable about an escape from a prisoner-of-war camp; and MacNeice's last play, Persons from Porlock, which traces the nemesis of an artist and was broadcast just four days before MacNeice's own death.
This generous and representative selection makes available again MacNeice's entertaining and innovative Irish blend of fantasy and realism, prose and verse, and offers important new perspectives on MacNeice's poetry.
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best-known plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws on the most authoritative texts to provide a much-needed reminder of the power of his dramatic writing.
All the plays are published here in authentic versions for the first time, several considerably changed, and two entirely new plays, never before published.
The volume comprises MacNeice's famous The Dark Tower, published here for the first time in its third and final version; the saga play They Met on Good Friday and the parable The Mad Islands, both of which use explicitly Irish subject-matter; the stage play One for the Grave, which mercilessly satirizes television and commercialism; the epic Christopher Columbus; He Had a Date (in its second version), an experiment in radio biography; Prisoner's Progress, a prize-winning parable about an escape from a prisoner-of-war camp; and MacNeice's last play, Persons from Porlock, which traces the nemesis of an artist and was broadcast just four days before MacNeice's own death.
This generous and representative selection makes available again MacNeice's entertaining and innovative Irish blend of fantasy and realism, prose and verse, and offers important new perspectives on MacNeice's poetry.
Christopher Columbus; He had a date, or what bearing?; The dark tower; Prisoner's progress; One for the grave; They met on Good Friday; The mad islands; Persons from Porlock. Appendices: author's introduction to "Christopher Columbus" - some comments on radio drama (1944); author's general introduction to "The Dark Tower and Other Radio Scripts" (1947).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.12.1993 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 659 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-811245-9 / 0198112459 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-811245-7 / 9780198112457 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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