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- catalog abstract "John O'Donovan (1921-85) - Irish playwright, journalist, scholar, broadcaster, raconteur, and wit - has been described as "the despair of his enemies, the delight of his friends, and sometimes vice versa." He was probably the most witty, literate, and learned Irish dramatist to appear after the Second World War; and the four plays contained in this volume present him at his most thoughtful, ribald, and moving. His Abbey Theatre play Copperfaced Jack is a rich tragicomedy about the tormented and Falstaffian Lord Clonmell in the turbulent revolutionary years following 1798. His Abbey play The Shaws of Synge Street is about the tumultuous and musical family and friends of the young Bernard Shaw. His radio play The Fiddler and the Dean is an imaginative reconstruction of a dialogue between Handel (who gave the first performance of The Messiah in Dublin) and Dean Swift (who was unwilling to let his choristers take part in Messiah). Carlotta, a late play here published for the first time, is an informed four-hander between the mature George Bernard Shaw, his wife, his sister, and his unruly and vivid leading lady - Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Taken together, these four plays offer persuasive evidence for O'Donovan's position as one of the few eminent Irish dramatists to emerge after Sean O'Casey and before Brian Friel.".
- catalog contributor b4601540.
- catalog contributor b4601541.
- catalog coverage "Ireland Drama.".
- catalog coverage "Ireland History Drama.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Copperfaced Jack -- The fiddler and the dean -- The shaws of Synge Street -- Carlotta.".
- catalog description "John O'Donovan (1921-85) - Irish playwright, journalist, scholar, broadcaster, raconteur, and wit - has been described as "the despair of his enemies, the delight of his friends, and sometimes vice versa." He was probably the most witty, literate, and learned Irish dramatist to appear after the Second World War; and the four plays contained in this volume present him at his most thoughtful, ribald, and moving. His Abbey Theatre play Copperfaced Jack is a rich tragicomedy about the tormented and Falstaffian Lord Clonmell in the turbulent revolutionary years following 1798. His Abbey play The Shaws of Synge Street is about the tumultuous and musical family and friends of the young Bernard Shaw. His radio play The Fiddler and the Dean is an imaginative reconstruction of a dialogue between Handel (who gave the first performance of The Messiah in Dublin) and Dean Swift (who was unwilling to let his choristers take part in Messiah). Carlotta, a late play here published for the first time, is an informed four-hander between the mature George Bernard Shaw, his wife, his sister, and his unruly and vivid leading lady - Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Taken together, these four plays offer persuasive evidence for O'Donovan's position as one of the few eminent Irish dramatists to emerge after Sean O'Casey and before Brian Friel.".
- catalog extent "225 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Jonathan, Jack, and GBS.".
- catalog identifier "0874134528 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Jonathan, Jack, and GBS.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Jonathan, Jack, and GBS.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Drama.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland History Drama.".
- catalog subject "822/.914 20".
- catalog subject "Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 Drama.".
- catalog subject "PR6065.D63 J64 1993".
- catalog subject "Scott, John, Earl of Clonmell, 1739-1798 Drama.".
- catalog subject "Shaw family Drama.".
- catalog subject "Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Drama.".
- catalog subject "Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Drama.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Copperfaced Jack -- The fiddler and the dean -- The shaws of Synge Street -- Carlotta.".
- catalog title "Jonathan, Jack, and GBS : four plays about Irish history and literature / by John O'Donovan ; edited by Robert Hogan ; with a reminiscence by James Plunkett.".
- catalog type "Drama. fast".
- catalog type "text".