This Norton Critical Edition of Modern Irish Drama reprints thecomplete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights:W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, SeanO'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. The es Ae fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish sage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions.

This Norton Critical Edition of Modern Irish Drama reprints thecomplete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights:W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, SeanO'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. The es Ae fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish sage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions.

"Backgrounds and Criticism" contains almost fifty texts rel-evant to each of the twelve plays represented. Included are prefaces by authors, reports by spectators on the original pro-ductions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances,and recent critical assessments by American, British, and Irish scholars. From its collection of documents relevant to the origin of the Irish Literary Revival in the midst of Ireland's republican revolution to the recent formation of the Field Day Company in Northern Ireland, Modern Irish Drama charts the rise, develop-ment, and present state of one of the most powerful nationaldramas of the twentieth century.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Preface

The Texts of the Plays

　W.B.Yeats

Cathleen Ni Houlihan

　　On Baile's Strand

Purgatory

　Lady Gregory

　　Spreading the News

　　The Rising of the Moon

　J.M.Synge

　　Riders to the Sea

　　The Playboy of the Western World

Bernard Shaw

　　John Bull's Other Island

Sean O'Casey

Juno and the Paycock

Brendan Behan

　　The Quare Fellow

Samuel Beckett

　　Krapp's Last Tape

Brian Friel

Translations

Backgrounds and Criticism

　IRISH DRAMA

Lady Gregory·Our Irish Theatre

John Eglinton.What Should Be the Subjects of National Drama?

W.B.Yeats·An Irish National Theatre

Frank J.Fay·An Irish National Theatre

Ernest Boyd·The Dramatic Movement

David Krause·The Hagiography of Cathleen Ni Houlihan

　W.B.YEATS

　W.B.Yeats * An Introduction for My Plays

　 Phillip L.Marcus·[Yeats and the Irish Renaissance]

　 G.J.Watson·[Cathleen Ni Houlihan]

　 James W.Flannery·IOn Baile's Strand]

　 Donald T.Torchiana·IPurgatory]

　LADY GREGORY

　Lady Gregory·Spreading the News

　 Lady Gregory·A Note on Spreading the News

　Lady Gregory·The Rising of the Moon

　 Ann Saddlemyer·Image-Maker for Ireland: Augusta, Lady Gregory

　 Daniel J.Murphy·Lady Gregory, Co-author and Sometimes Author of the Plays of W.B.Yeats

　 Elizabeth Coxhead·Lady Gregory: A Literary Portrait

　J.M.SYNGE

　 Robin Skelton·[Riders to the Sea]

　J.M.Synge·Preface to The Playboy of the Western World

　 W.B.Yeats·Preface to the First Edition of The Well of the Saints

　 Joseph Holloway·[Journal 19o7]

　W.B.Yeats·The Controversy over The Playboy of the Western World

　 Una Ellis-Fermor·[John Millington Synge]

　Nicholas Grene·Approaches to The Playboy

　BERNARD SHAW

　Bernard Shaw·Preface for Politicians

　 M.J.Sidnell·Hie and Ille: Shaw and Yeats

　Norma Jenckes·The Rejection of Shaw's Irish Play: John Bull's Other Island

　 David Krause·[John Bull's Other Island[

　SEAN O'CASEY

　 Joseph Holloway·[Journal 1923-24]

　……

Chronology

Selected Bibliography