The dreaming body : contemporary Irish theatre /

Sihra (Trinity College, Dublin) and Murphy (Queens Univ., Belfast) provide a collection of essays, supplemented by excerpts from contemporary plays, that explores the changing world of Irish drama. The editors bring to this volume significant individual publishing history and experience, and this results in an engaging critical consideration of drama as an expression of creative impulses in a changing culture. Released in the "Ulster Editions and Monographs" series, the book concerns itself with issues ranging from language and traditional values to feminism and gender, and it offers an up-to-date examination of contemporary playwrights. The editors enhance the collection with an introduction that unifies the essays and offers a view of theater practice in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. Chapter notes add further value. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. M. H. Kealy Immaculata University