FALL QUARTER PLAYWRIGHTS AND PLAYS

Playwrights:

• RTÉ Profile of Brian Friel
• WB Yeats – Poetry Foundation
• J.M. Synge – Poetry Foundation
• Lady Augusta Gregory – Wikipedia page

Molly Sweeney (by Brian Friel):

• Wikipedia page
• NY Times review
• Filmed preview of Irish stage performance

Cathleen Ní Houlihan (by W.B. Yeats):

• Cathleen Ní Houlihan as an archetype
• Wikipedia page
• Review essay
• Yeats, Two Old Women, and a Vampire essay

Deirdre (by W.B. Yeats)

• One version of the old story 
• Another version of the old story, out loud
• Wikipedia page
• Deirdre reinvented as a modern feminist parable

Translations (by Brian Friel):

• Wikipedia page
• The Characters (Prezi presentation)
• The Dilemma of Colonial Hybridity in Translations

Riders to the Sea (by J.M. Synge):

• The Play online
• Wikipedia page
• Symbolism in Riders to the Sea
• Bizarre lecture/animation of Riders to the Sea
• Riders to the Sea (1940 film, complete)

The Rising of the Moon (by Lady Augusta Gregory):

• The Song
• Wikipedia page about the song
• The Play online
• Play summary

Spreading the News (by Lady Augusta Gregory):

• Wikipedia page
• Comparison of Rising of the Moon and Spreading the News
• Blog comments about Spreading the News
• Lady Gregory’s “Humour of Character” article