Rhapsody in St Stephen's Green: The Insect Play - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Flann

 
9781874675273: Rhapsody in St Stephen's Green: The Insect Play
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1874675279 ISBN 13 : 9781874675273
Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann O'Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective, targeting race, religion, greed, identity and purpose. With his extraordinary ear for dialogue, O'Brien creates his own fantastical world, and the outcome is a hilarious satire of Irish stereotypes - as Orangemen, Dubliners, Corkagians and culchies become warring ants, bees, crickets, dung-beetles, and other small-minded invertebrae. The lost text of this play, Hilton Edwards' prompt copy from the 1943 Gate Theatre performance, was discovered in the archives at Northwestern University, Illinois.

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À propos de l?auteur

FLANN O'BRIEN (aka Myles na gCopaleen, Brian O'Nolan), Irish civil servant and toper, was a novelist, journalist, critic, playwright, and comic writer of genius. He died on April Fool's Day, 1966, aged fifty-five.

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Éditeur
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1874675279
ISBN 13 
9781874675273
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
98
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Personne responsable
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