Irish adaptations of Greek tragedies : Dionysus in Ireland / Kelly Younger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Younger, Kelly.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 40.

Studies in comparative literature ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptations.

English drama (Tragedy)--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama (Tragedy).

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Appreciation--Ireland.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Appreciation.

English drama--Greek influences.

Authors, Irish.

Ireland.

Comparative literature--English and Greek.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Greek and English.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Ireland--In literature.

Greece--In literature.

Greece.

Physical Description:

ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2001]

Contents:

Chapter 1 W.B. Yeats: King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus 23

Chapter 2 Louis MacNeice: The Agamemnon 79

Chapter 3 Brendan Kennelly: Antigone, Medea, Trojan Women 107

Chapter 4 Seamus Heaney: The Cure at Troy 181

Chapter 5 Derek Mahon: The Bacchae 213

Chapter 6 Frank McGuinness: Electra 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-300) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0773474668

OCLC:

45393049