Amid Our Troubles; Editor: Mcdonald, Marianne; Editor: Walton, J. Michael; Hardback; Book

Editor: Mcdonald, Marianne; Editor: Walton, J. Michael
Hardback; Book
300 pages
Published: June 2002
Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0413771423

This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have traveled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live. Includes essays by writers such as Athol Fugard, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin.New essays from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across 3000 years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.