Explores the various ways in which the farm and farming have been represented in Irish writing in the period of Independence and Partition after 1922.

Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene ...

A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition.

By picking out the distinctive 'codes' of Yeats's poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place names, characteristic vocabulary, and stylistic preferences, Grene's study will send readers back to the work with a new sense of ...

In this innovative study, Nicholas Grene traces the changing forms of the home on the stage through nine of the greatest of modern plays and playwrights.

This is the first full scale academic study devoted to his theatre, providing an overview of all his work, with a detailed reading of his most significant texts.

In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships.