National Identity in Irish Drama. A Study of Selected Plays by Yeats, Synge and O'Casey

Download or read book National Identity in Irish Drama. A Study of Selected Plays by Yeats, Synge and O'Casey written by Youssef Al-Youssef and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This book comes as a continuation to the previous book with the same title, but this time, with ten plays and a broader discussion of the previously discussed ones. In this book, many specialised people have worked hard in order to answer the ongoing debates in the literary field. It deals with the most abstract idea in the Irish Theater: Nation Identity. It studies ten plays by three dramatisits and gives insight for analysing other plays. The presented plays are as following: - The Countess Cathleen - Cathleen Ni Houlihan - Purgatory - Riders to the Sea - The Playboy of the Western World - The Well of the Saints - Juno and the Paycock - The Plough and the Stars - The Shadow of Gunman - The Silver Tassie