Modern Irish Drama; A Norton Critical Edition

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 590 g.; XIV, 578 pages, last page blank, preface by editor, chronology and selected bibliography Black-and-white photographic front cover, showing The Abby Theatre, Dublin, with a green background and green, black and white titles to the front panel and black-and-white titles to the backstrip. . " This Norton Critical Edition of Modern Irish Drama reprints the complete text of 12 plays by the major Irish playwrights: W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The text are fully annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures, and literary allusions. Backgrounds and Criticism contains almost 50 text relevant to each of the 12 plays represented. Included prefaces by authors, reports by spectators on original productions, memoirs concerning playwrights and performances, and recent critical assessments by American, British and Irish scholars." -- from the rear panel blurb. A clean copy which appears to be unused, with no damage to describe. Although the publication page says that was printed in 1991, it has an ISBN-13 which means that it was published after 2007. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Literary Criticism; Plays; Ireland; ISBN: 0393960633. ISBN/EAN: 9780393960631. Inventory No: 0268076. . 9780393960631