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A collection of essays focusing on the role of the fantastic in Irish literature and arts, looking at the works of Yeats, John Field, Shelley, Synge, Beckett, Swift and others, as well as Irish theatre, music and paintings.

These essays illustrate the essential theme of the fantastic - the testing of the limits of civilization and the questioning of commonly accepted values and ideas as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.

This book is a timely reminder of how theatre does not just entertain, but enlightens and transforms us too. The five plays it collects are wonderfully theatrical, moving fluidly from absurdism to tragedy, and from satire to the darkly comic. The translators give us versions that will stimulate and delight readers, performers and audiences. By giving voice to the 'forgotten playwrights of Central Europe', they also deeply enrich our understand...