...individual may have contributed to a "changing Irish identity" (1). In choosing playwrights who worked at intervals of approximately fifty years, she hopes to demonstrate a trajectory of identity development that ultimately leads her to ask where Irish drama (and thus identity) might go from here.

In beginning with LeFanu (the sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Duncan provides a close reading of a text that is little known and hard to fred, the part of the book that adds something new and different...

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