Edited by Ann Saddlemyer
ISBN: 978-0-86140-060-7
J.M.Synge died in 1909 and The Works of John M. Synge were published in four volumes by Maunsel & Co., Dublin, in 1910. Since that time, with the exception of a few minor verses and one or two fragments of prose, the canon of his work has remained unaltered. Nevertheless, much unpublished material exists, for the most part of great interest and significance for the understanding of Synge's methods of work and development. This material, including early drafts of the plays, notebooks, poems, and fragments of poetic drama, has now been thoroughly explored in order to create this definitive edition, first published by Oxford University Press 1962-68, which not only collects together all that is of significance in his printed and in his unprinted work, but also, by a careful use of worksheets and early drafts, indicates much of the process of creation which occurred before the production of the printed page.
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An Entertainment on the Life and Works of Oscar Wilde 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 71pp. 1995 Facsimile of the 1978 2nd Dolmen edition ISBN: 978-0-85105-510-7 Originally created by the author as a one man show that was first produced at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 1960 to rapturous reviews, and over the next fifteen years performed by him all over the world, the most recent production was performed by Simon Callow at the Savoy Theatre in 1998. Originally published by the Dolmen Press in 1963, critics acclaimed the text as 'an outstandingly skilful and memorable tribute from one Irish artist to another' (Micheal O hAodha, The Irish Press), and 'every bit as Wildeanly witty as Oscar at his best' (Quidnunc in The Irish Times). The present printing uses the designs mac Liammóir produced for the record sleeves for his recording of the work. -
Chosen and Introduced by Janet Egleson Dunleavy and Gareth Dunleavy The seventh volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardcover ISBN: 0-86140-095-X / 987-0-86140-095-9 £25.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-096-8 / 978-0-86140-096-6 £8.99 21.6 x 13.8 cm 192 pp. 1991 Contains: The Twisting of the Rope, The Marriage, The Lost Saint, The Nativity, King James, The Bursting of the Bubble, The Tinker and the Sheeog, The Matchmaking, The School-master, bibliographical checklist. This volume publishes the original Irish language texts with Lady Gregory's translations. -
Edited by Ann Saddlemyer ISBN: 978-0-86140-061-4 xxxvi, 304 pp. 21.4cm J.M.Synge died in 1909 and The Works of John M. Synge were published in four volumes by Maunsel & Co., Dublin, in 1910. Since that time, with the exception of a few minor verses and one or two fragments of prose, the canon of his work has remained unaltered. Nevertheless, much unpublished material exists, for the most part of great interest and significance for the understanding of Synge's methods of work and development. This material, including early drafts of the plays, notebooks, poems, and fragments of poetic drama, has now been thoroughly explored in order to create this definitive edition, first published by Oxford University Press 1962-68, which not only collects together all that is of significance in his printed and in his unprinted work, but also, by a careful use of worksheets and early drafts, indicates much of the process of creation. -
Chosen and Introduced by Wolfgang Zach The thirteenth volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardcover ISBN: 0-86140-292-8 / 978-0-86140-292-2 £32.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-293-6 / 978-0-86140-293-9 £8.95 21.6 x 13.8 cm Contains: The Turn of the Road, The Drone, Red Turf, The Troth, Phantoms, Bridgehead and Peter, bibliographical checklist. Note. Although the two articles ‘The Ulster Literary Theatre’ and ‘Meet Rutherford Mayne’ were announced as being part of this volume they were, for reasons the publisher is unable to explain, omitted from the published book. They can now be read HERE -
Chosen and Introduced by John Barrett The eleventh volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. 21.6 x 13.8 cm. Hardcopy ISBN: 0-86140-154-9 / 978-0-86140-154-3 £30.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-155-7 / 978-0-86140-155-0 £9.95 Contains: Where Stars Walk, Ill Met by Moonlight, The Mountains Look Different, The Liar, Prelude in Kasbek Street, selected writings on plays and players, bibliographical checklist. -
Chosen and Introduced by Christopher Murray The first volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. ISBN: 0-86140-087-9 / 978-0-86140-087-4 £25.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-088-7 / 978-0-86140-088-1 £9.95 Contains: Patriots, The Whiteheaded Boy, Crabbed Youth and Age, The Big House, Drama at Inish, Church Street, bibliographical checklist. Lennox Robinson was one of the leading playwrights of Dublin's Abbey Theatre as well as being its general manager and a director for many years. As with many other playwrights of the twentieth century, his work has been unjustly neglected, this volume, published in 1982, being the first of his plays to have appeared for over a quarter of a century. It is fitting, therefore, that this selection should be the first of a new series, Irish Drama Selections, which has sought to remedy the shortage of texts of the work of Ireland's dramatists, which with the exception of perhaps ten authors, are virtually unobtainable except in rare editions, long out of print. -
Chosen and Introduced by Joseph Ronsley The second volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardcover ISBN: 0-86140-123-9 / 978-0-86140-123-9 £30.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-086-0 / 978-0-86140-086-7 £9.95 21.6 x 13.8 cm. Contains: The Old Lady Says 'No! (with Curtis Canfield's list of titles and authors of poems used in its Prologue)', The Moon in the Yellow River, The Golden Cuckoo, The Dreaming Dust, The Scythe and the Sunset, bibliographical checklist. -
hosen and Introduced by Andrew Parkin The fourth volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 416 pp. 2009 2nd, enlarged edition Contains: London Assurance, The Corsican Brothers, The Octoroon, The Colleen Bawn, The Shaughraun, Robert Emmet, bibliographical checklist. plus Boucicault's "'Canterin' Jack' - A Sketch from Life. How The Shaughraun was originated'. Dion Boucicault was a prominent playwright and prolific adapter of foreign plays and novels. He is known and loved especially for his high melodrama. Extremely popular on the Victorian commercial theatre for over forty years, his plays today still provide enjoyment to all audiences Born in Dublin, he achieved his first West End success with London Assurance in 1841. His work frankly catered to contemporary taste and fell rapidly into neglect after his death in 1890, but his lively observation of humanity in many moods, and his unerring sense of what works on the stage, have led his plays in recent years to successful revivals in Dublin, Belfast, Chichester and London, perhaps the most notable being the National Theatre's production of The Shaughraun starring Stephen Rea in the title role. -
Chosen and Introduced by Robert O'Driscoll The twelfth volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardcover ISBN; 0-86140-148-4 / 978-0-86140-148-2 £35.00 Paperback ISBN; 0-86140-149-2 / 978-0-86140-149-9 £9.95 21.6 x 13.8 cm. Contains: The King of Friday's Men, The Paddy Pedlar, The Wood of the Whispering, Daughter from over the Water, Petticoat Loose and the previously unpublished The Bachelor's Daughter, bibliographical checklist. -
Chosen and Introduced by Mary FitzGerald The third volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardcover ISBN: 0-86140-099-2 / 978-0-86140-99-7 £25.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-100-X / 978-0-86140-100-0 £9.99 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 379 pp. 1983 Contains: The Travelling Man, Spreading the News, Kincora, Hyacinth Halvey, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Gaol Gate, The Rising of the Moon, Dervorgilla, The Workhouse Ward, Grania, The Golden Apple, The Story Brought by Brigit, Dave, Lady Gregory on playwriting and her plays, bibliographical checklist. -
Chosen and Introduced by Richard Allen Cave The tenth volume of the Irish Drama Selections series (ISSN 0260-7962), General Editors: Joseph Ronsley and Ann Saddlemyer. Hardback ISBN: 0-86140-142-5 / 978-0-86140-142-0 £30.00 Paperback ISBN: 0-86140-143-3 / 978-0-86140-143-7 £ 8.95 21.6 x 13.8 cm. Contains: Sovereign Love, Birthright, Maurice Harte, The Briery Gap, Autumn Fire, The Pipe in the Fields, the essay ‘George Shiels, Brinsley MacNamara, Etc.’, and the previously unpublished Illumination , bibliographical checklist.