Marilynn Richtarik

Gebundenes Buch

Stewart Parker

A Life

Beschreibung

Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this is the first biography of the important Irish playwright Stewart Parker. It illuminates the genesis and meaning of such classic plays as Spokesong and Pentecost - works that continue to shed light on Northern Ireland's past, present, and future - in the context of Parker's life and times.

Autor

Marilynn Richtarik was educated at Harvard University and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her first book, Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984, was published by Oxford University Press in 1995. Author of numerous articles on Stewart Parker, Richtarik is recognized as an authority on his work and has written programme notes for productions of his plays in London, Dublin, Belfast, and Washington, DC. Since 1995 she has taught twentieth-century British and Irish literature at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is currently an Associate Professor of English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199695034
• ISBN-10: 0199695032
• Artikelnr.: 35331674