Drama : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is a sequel to Kidnapped, and tells the further story of the central character David Balfour. It has proved significantly less popular than the earlier work. However many babies have been named after this book. The book begins precisely where Kidnapped ends - at 2 PM on 25 August 1751 outside the British Linen Company in Edinburgh. - Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. . more...

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Contents The Battle of Life. The Chimes. A Christmas Carol. The Cricket on the Hearth. The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain. The Holly-Tree. Some Christmas Stories:. A Christmas Tree. The Child''s Story. Nobody''s Story. The Poor Relation''s Story. The Schoolboy''s Story. What Christmas is as we Grow Older. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. . more...

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Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these representations of Ireland and the fluid nature of cultural identity, especially during a period of economic and political change. Although the book establishes the historical context for contemporary Irish drama, and does include discussion of some of the earlier works of Brian Friel, Frank MacGuinness and Tom Murphy, the emphasis lies on their more recent work from 1980, and especially upon work created by new writers performed during the 1990's, during the emergence of the 'Celtic tiger economy' in the Republic, and the Peace Process in the North. Key themes provide the structure of the book, which examines especially those theatrical strategies which have been associated with the performance of identity, particularly in a post-colonial situation. References are also made to interviews with writers, performers, directors and groups, as well as performances seen across Ireland and Britain. Contemporary critical perspectives from post-colonial theory to psychoanalysis and performance praxis are deployed, but in an accessible way. In contrast to the tensions associated with the colonising relationship between Ireland and Britain, the relationship between Ireland and Europe are considered in terms of cultural and economic influences and performance practices, and that between Ireland and America in terms of the 'dream of the West', the diaspora and tourism. more...

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David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account) is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form (published in monthly installments). Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens'' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens'' "favorite child.". — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. . more...

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and act. ************. The Doctor''s Dilemma is a play by G. Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. The thesis of the play, revolutionary for its time, was that medical doctors inevitably face a dilemma between the need to care for their patients and the need to practice often unnecessary operations on them in order to earn their livelihood. It was modelled on the behaviour of a prominent Ear Nose and Throat specialist in London who had developed a simple and harmless operation to remove the uvula. This benefitted none of his patients but made the surgeon concered a great deal of money. The play also attacked aspects of the germ theory of disease, and included socialist and anti-vivisectionist viewpoints. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. . more...

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