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A Critical Companion to the four principle playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival -W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Augusta Lady Gregory and Sean O'Casey - and to the birth of the Irish national theatre, the Abbey. Anthony Roche provides a reappraisal of the theatre movement led by Yeats and the work of the main practitioners.

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An attractive & approachable selection of the work of Bernard Shaw, one of the most remarkable people of the 20th century. Hissteely self-determination turned the conviction that he would become a great writer into reality. With extracts from his plays, essays and personal letters.