{"product_id":"amid-our-troubles-marianne-mcdonald-9780413771421","title":"Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding essays from, amongst others, Athol Fugard, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin Amid Our Troubles looks at the work of such writers as Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness and W. B. Yeats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marianne McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0413771423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780413771421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.64h x 6.00w x 1.08d","brand":"Marianne McDonald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48658843566335,"sku":"9780413771421","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amid-our-troubles-marianne-mcdonald-9780413771421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}