Modern Irish Drama

August 24, 2026 - December 18, 2026
Tuesday
5:30PM - 8:10PM
ARTSCI 388

Summer Prep

• Readings for Class Two
• The Irish Heiress, Boucicault, text
• The O'Dowd, Boucicault, text
• Lady Windermere's Fan, Wilde, text
• Reading Journal 1
• Readings for Class Threww
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde, text
• John Bull's Other Island, Shaw, p.113-196
• Reading Journal 2
• Readings for Class Four
• Spreading the News, Lady Gregory, p.36-49
• The Rising of the Moon, Lady Gregory, p.50-57
• "Our Irish Theatre," Lady Gregory, text
• The Gaol Gate, Lady Gregory, text
• Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats & Gregory, p.3-11
• The Pot of Broth, Yeats & Gregory, p.12-19
• Reading Journal 3
• Readings for Class Five
• The Countess Cathleen, Yeats, text
• On Baile's Strand, Yeats, text
• Riders to the Sea, Synge, p.58-67
• In the Shadow of the Glen, Synge, text
• Reading Journal 4
• Readings for Class Six
• Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
• Colum, The Land
• The Fiddler's House
• Readings for Class Seven
• Yeats, At the Hawk's Well
• O'Casey, June and the Paycock
• Yeats, Purgatory
• Readings for Class Eight
• Beckett, Waiting for Godot
• Krapp's Last Tape
• Happy Days
• Readings for Class Nine
• Molly, The Wood of Whispering
• Behan, The Hostage
• Friel, Philadelphia Here I Come!
• Keane, The Field
• Readings for Class Ten
• Kilroy, Tea and Sex and Shakespeare
• Friel, Translations
• Aron, The Same Old Moon
• Murphy, Bailegangaire
• Readings for Class Eleven
• Reid, The Belle of the Belfast City
• Woods, At the Black Pig's Dyke
• Readings for Class Twelve
• Barry, The Steward of Christendom
• McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan
• McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leeann
• Readings for Class Thirteen
• McPherson, The Weir
• Carr, By the Bog of Cats
• Friel, The Home Place
• Readings for Class Fourteen
• Carr, Woman and Scarecrow
• McPherson, The Seafarer
• Harris, The Beacon