The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays  -  J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey

KORTE INHOUD

A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of Nyadnanave sees a vision of a cockerel that dares the inhabitants to break the shackles of Church and State. All these plays were met with moral outrage and rioting in their native Ireland. Yeats's 'The Countess Cathleen' (1892), J. M. Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World' (1907) and O'Casey's 'Cock-a-doodle Dandy...
1987 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1987 Uitgever: Penguin Reeks: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140188789 ISBN-13: 9780140188783