Modern Irish Drama Prep

• Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama
• Cathleen Ni Houlihan, W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
• The Pot of Broth, W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
• At the Hawk's Well, W.B. Yeats
• Purgatory, W.B. Yeats
• OLD MAN. I stuck him with a knife,
  That knife the cuts my dinner now,
  And after that I left him in the fire.
  They dragged him out, somebody saw
  The knife-wound but could not be certain
  Because the body was all black and charred.
  Then some that were his drunken friends
  swore they would put me upon trial,
  Spoke of quarrels, a threat I had made.
  The gamekeeper gave me some old clothes,
  I ran away, worked here and there
  Till I became a pedlar on the roads,
  No good trade, but good enough
  because I am my father's son,
  Because of what I did or may do,
  Listen to the hoof-beats! Listen, listen!
• Spreading the News, Lady Gregory
• MRS. FALLON. Sorry for me, is it? Why would anyone be sorry for me? Let you be sorry for yourselves, and that there may be shame on you for ever and at the day of judgment, for the words you are saying and the lies you are telling to take away the character of my poor man, and to take the good name off him, and to drive him to destruction! That is what you are doing!
• The Rising of the Moon, Lady Gregory
• Riders to the Sea, J.M. Synge
• The Playboy of the Western World, J.M. Synge
• SCENE. Country public-house or shebeen, very rough and untidy. There is a sort of counter on the right with shelves, holding many bottles and jugs, just seen above it. Empty barrels stand near the counter. At back, a little left of counter, there is a door into the open air, then, more to the left, there is a settle with shelves above it, with more jugs, and a table beneath the window. At the left there is a large open fire-place, with turf fire, and a small door into inner room. PEGEEN, a wild-looking but fine girl, of about twenty, is writing at table. She is dressed in the usual peasant dress.
• Playboy Notes
• John Bull's Other Island, Bernard Shaw
• Juno and the Paycock, Sean O'Casey
• Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett
• Translations, Brian Friel
• The Wier, Conor McPherson
• By the Bog of Cats, Marina Carr