{"product_id":"saint-oscar-and-other-plays-isbn-9780631204534","title":"Saint Oscar and Other Plays","description":"This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - \u003ci\u003eSt Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGods Locusts.\u003c\/i\u003e The first two originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. \u003ci\u003eGod's Locusts\u003c\/i\u003e was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.  Introduction. \u003cp\u003eSaint Oscar.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe White, the Gold and the Gangrene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisappearances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod's Locusts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His \u003ci\u003eThe Illusions of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Blackwell in 1996, as did the Second Edition of his classic \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMarxist Literary Theory,\u003c\/i\u003e co-edited with Drew Milne. \u003ci\u003eThe Eagleton Reader,\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Stephen Regan, is forthcoming from Blackwell. Eagleton's numerous other works include \u003ci\u003eHeathcliff and The Ideology of the Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), \u003ci\u003eCriticism and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), and \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Literary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (1976).  Terry Eagleton's plays in this first collection of his work for the theatre - \u003ci\u003eSt Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGod's Locusts\u003c\/i\u003e - transgress what he terms 'the jealously patrolled frontiers between `art` and `idea`'. In spirit they owe at least as much to Oscar Wilde, the Irish Oxfordian socialist and proto-deconstructionist, as, for example in their use of prose and ballad forms, they do to Bertolt Brecht. \u003cp\u003eEagleton sees in Wilde's work 'a kind of secret compact' between artistic and theoretical experiment. A similar compact emerges in these startling dramas of (post)colonial Ireland and, in \u003ci\u003eDisappearances,\u003c\/i\u003e the neo-colonial 'third' world, mixing commitment, passion and satirical wit, savage and playful, in a manner characteristic of Eagleton's later critical writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaint Oscar,\u003c\/i\u003e about Oscar Wilde, and \u003ci\u003eThe White, the Gold and the Gangrene,\u003c\/i\u003e based on the life and tragic death of James Connolly, originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. \u003ci\u003eGod's Locusts,\u003c\/i\u003e written to commemorate the Great Famine and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, castigates British officialdom for its callous inhumanity in mismanaging the relief operation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989979152613,"sku":"NP9780631204534","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631204534.jpg?v=1761786106","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/saint-oscar-and-other-plays-isbn-9780631204534","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}