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):
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):
Spreading the News (by Lady Augusta Gregory):