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1 online resource (638 pages) |
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FrontCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Frontispiece Acknowledgements; Preface: Fintan O'Toole; 1 Introduction: Christopher Murray; 2 Extract from The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant (2009): Tom Murphy; History, Politics, Society; 3 Voice and Violence in Murphy: Nicholas Grene; 4 Famine in Context: Hiroko Mikami; 5 Tom Murphy and the Syntax of Irish History: Paul Murphy; Comparative Essays; 6 A Crucial Week and The Glass Menagerie: Helen Heusner Lojek; 7 'Camelot Lost': The Death of the American Dream: Pat Burke; 8 Murphy and Synge: Insiders and Outsiders: Riana M. O'Dwyer |
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9 The Politics of Performance in The Hostage and The Blue Macushla: Alexandra PoulainPerformance and Text; 10 'A Better Form of Drama': Tom Murphy and the Claims of Music: Harry White; 11 The Fell of Dark: The Gigli Concert: Ben Barnes; 12 New Mind Over Old Matter: The Evolution of Too Late for Logic: José Lanters; 13 Alice Trilogy: Seen Through the Looking-Glass of the London Critics: Peter James Harris; 14 Recreating the Front of the Tapestry: Murphy's Version of The Cherry Orchard: Zsuzsa Csikai; Identity, Family, Religion |
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15 Gender, Violence and Identity in A Whistle in the Dark: Aidan Arrowsmith16 'Complicated Thorns of Kindred': Murphy's Interrogation of Family: Shaun Richards; 17 'Of Things that No Longer Matter': Alienation and Self-Understanding in The Orphans: Bernard McKenna; 18 'Rituals of a Lost Faith'?: Murphy's Theatre of the Possible: Csilla Bertha; Tom Murphy: A Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Essays on the work of playwright Tom Murphy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Murphy, Thomas, 1935-2018 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Murphy, Thomas, 1935-2018 fast |
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English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama -- Irish authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781904505778 |
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1904505775 |
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