San Antonio College Library

A complete guide to Yeats's folk plays, with each of the thirty plays given critical scrutiny which will be especially valuable to students encountering Yeats's plays for the first time.

"Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped...