Author: EAGLETON, TERRY
Title: Saint Oscar and Other Plays
Description: Oxford, Blackwell. 1997. (ISBN: 0631204539). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a small name and date to half title page. 225 pages. Comprises the author's introduction and his plays Saint Oscar; The White, the Gold and the Gangrene; Disappearances; God's Locusts. Eagleton sees in Wilde's works 'a kind of secret compact' between artistic and theoretical experiment. A similar compact emerges in these startling dramas of post colonial Ireland. Saint Oscar, is about Oscar Wilde; The White, the Gold and the Gangrene is based on the life and tragic death of James Connolly; God's Locusts was written to commemorate the Great Famine. S. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Oscar Wilde, Ireland Drama, James Connolly, Great Irish Famine 0631204539


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