James Pethica
Biographic Data
| ID | 5120463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Pethica |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Pethica |
| SIGNATURE | PETHICA J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the …
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contempora…
Patronage and Creative Exchange
The importance of the material support that Lady Gregory provided for Yeats in the early years of their friendship was common knowledge amongst their contemporaries. John Quinn, a model patron himself, would take it as an accepted verity in 1911 that “the world of letters owes it chiefly to her that in the last ten years Yeats has done so much creative work”.1 George Moore, recalling in Ave how “life at Coole was arranged primarily to give [Yeats…
“Our Kathleen”
When explaining in the preface to his Plays in Prose and Verse in 1922 how often Lady Gregory had collaborated with him in playwriting, Yeats concluded that of the eleven plays in the volume only two could be considered “wholly” his work ( VPl 1306). So extensive was the collaboration in the years between Lady Gregory’s first tentative contribution of “a sentence here and there” 1 to Diarmuid and Grania in 1900, and the last occasion of their wor…
Patronage and Creative Exchange
The importance of the material support that Lady Gregory provided for Yeats in the early years of their friendship was common knowledge amongst their contemporaries. John Quinn, a model patron himself, would take it as an accepted verity in 1911 that "the world of letters owes it chiefly to her that in the last ten years Yeats has done so much creative work".1 George Moore, recalling in Ave how "life at Coole was arranged primarily to give [Yeats…
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Patronage and Creative Exchange
The importance of the material support that Lady Gregory provided for Yeats in the early years of their friendship was common knowledge amongst their contemporaries. John Quinn, a model patron himself, would take it as an accepted verity in 1911 that "the world of letters owes it chiefly to her that in the last ten years Yeats has done so much creative work".1 George Moore, recalling in Ave how "life at Coole was arranged primarily to give [Yeats…
Patronage and Creative Exchange
The importance of the material support that Lady Gregory provided for Yeats in the early years of their friendship was common knowledge amongst their contemporaries. John Quinn, a model patron himself, would take it as an accepted verity in 1911 that “the world of letters owes it chiefly to her that in the last ten years Yeats has done so much creative work”.1 George Moore, recalling in Ave how “life at Coole was arranged primarily to give [Yeats…
“Our Kathleen”
When explaining in the preface to his Plays in Prose and Verse in 1922 how often Lady Gregory had collaborated with him in playwriting, Yeats concluded that of the eleven plays in the volume only two could be considered “wholly” his work ( VPl 1306). So extensive was the collaboration in the years between Lady Gregory’s first tentative contribution of “a sentence here and there” 1 to Diarmuid and Grania in 1900, and the last occasion of their wor…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contempora…
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the …
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