W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…

Brian Friel, born in 1929 in Northern Ireland, is the author of several radio plays and a dozen theatre plays, given in Belfast, Dublin, London, New York. He is one of the most famous contemporary English-language dramatists…

The plays gathered here are the works of two famous northern Irish dramatists who experienced the ever-present Civil War that they stage with faith and talent. The spirit that enimates Boyd and Friel is the same, the places are different…

Collection of literary, occult and political essays, Explorations sheds an essential light on Yeats' work and particularly on his brand new conception of theatrical techniques…

Even if we don't wish to argue with England, America or France over their dramatists from Ireland, we must admit that a Sheridan, a Shaw, a O’Neill or a Beckett, that is neither fully English, American or French, obstinately retains a certain something that betrays the trace of their ancestral tradition. And then, there are the one whose specific..