Nine Irish Plays for Voices by Eamon Grennan (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Nine Irish Plays for Voices by Eamon Grennan Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description A vibrant collection of short plays bringing Irish history and culture alive through an extraordinary collage of documents, songs, poems, and texts.In Nine Irish Plays for Voices, award-winning poet Eamon Grennan delves deep into key Irish subjects-big, small, literary, historical, political, biographical-and illuminates them for todays audiences and readers. These short plays draw from original material centering on important moments in Irish history and the formation of the Irish Republic, such as the Great Famine and the Easter Rising; the lives of Irish literary figures like Yeats, Joyce, and Lady Gregory; and the crucial and life-changing condition of emigration.The rhythmic, musical, and vivid language of Grennans plays incorporates traditional song lyrics, lines of Irish poetry, and letters and speeches of the time. The result is a dramatic collage that tells a story through the voices of characters contemporary to the period of the plays subject. By presenting subjects through the dramatic rendering of the human voice, the plays facilitate a close, intimate relationship between players and the audience, creating an incredibly powerful connection to the past. Historical moments and literary figures that might seem remote to the present-day reader or audience become immediate and emotionally compelling.One of the plays, Ferry, is drawn entirely from the authors imagination. It puts unnamed characters who come from the world of twentieth-century Ireland on a boat to the underworld with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. On their journey the five strangers, played by two voices, tell stories about their lives, raising the question of how language both captures and transforms lived experience. Addressing the Great Famine, Hunger uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been a silent and traumatic element in Irish history. Noramollyannalivialucia: The Muse and Mr. Joyce is a one-woman piece that depicts James Joyces wife as an older woman sharing her memories and snippets from the works of her husband. Also included in this rich volume is the authors adaptation of Synges Aran Islands, as well as Emigration Road, History! Reading the Easter Rising, The Muse and Mr. Yeats, The Loves of Lady Gregory, and Peig: An Ordinary Life. Author Biography Eamon Grennan is retired from the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Chair of English at Vassar College. The most recent of his thirteen volumes of poetry are Plainchant (2022) and There Now (2015). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Foundation Poetry Prize, the Listowel Poetry Prize, the Poetry Now Award for Out of Breath (2007), and the PEN award for poetry in translation for Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi (1997). Details ISBN 1531502547 ISBN-13 9781531502546 Title Nine Irish Plays for Voices Author Eamon Grennan Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 360 Publisher Fordham University Press GE_Item_ID:161513634; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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