Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice Hardcover - 1994
by Louis MacNeice; Peter McDonald (Editor)
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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws on the most authoritative texts to provide a much-needed reminder of the power of his dramatic writing. The volume comprises MacNeice's famous The Dark Tower, published here for the first time in its third and final version; the saga play They Met on Good Friday and the parable The Mad Islands, both of which use explicitly Irish subject-matter; the stage play One for the Grave, which mercilessly satirizes television and commercialism; the epic Christopher Columbus; He Had a Date (in its second version), an experiment in radio biography; Prisoner's Progress, a prize-winning parable about an escape from a prisoner-of-war camp; and MacNeice's last play, Persons from Porlock, which traces the nemesis of an artist and was broadcast just four days before MacNeice's own death. This generous and representative selection makes available again MacNeice's entertaining and innovative blend of fantasy and realism, prose and verse, and offers important new perspectives on MacNeice's poetry.
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- Title Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice
- Author Louis MacNeice; Peter McDonald (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Date 1994-01-27
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780198112457 / 0198112459
- Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.13 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.87 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93019748
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.912
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