[New-Poetry] Litteraria Pragensia

[Anny Ballardini]

NEW TITLES from Litteraria Pragensia Books

          http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/parker.html

Stewart Parker ranks among Ireland's most innovative dramatists and
yet as the twentieth anniversary of his death approaches, critical
engagement with his work has still much ground to cover. With the
exception of The Actress and the Bishop (1976) and Kingdom Come
(1977), Stewart Parker's theatre plays have remained in print with
Methuen. This is the only material that is currently widely available
to scholars, students and readers. However, Parker's work extends well
beyond this known core including numerous journalistic writings,
literary criticism, radio and television plays.

In honour of the twentieth anniversary of Parker's death and as a
means of bringing these relatively unknown aspects of his oeuvre to
the reading public and international scholarly community, Litteraria
Pragensia Books presents a two volume set of primary materials with
critical introductions. Both volumes provide unique and long overdue
perspectives on Parker's work in an accessible format that will extend
critical acknowledgement of Parker's status as one of the most
versatile and engaging writers to emerge in Northern Ireland in the
1970s and 1980s.


STEWART PARKER DRAMATIS PERSONAE & OTHER WRITINGS
edited by Gerald Dawe, Maria Johnston & Clare Wallace
ISBN 978-80-7308-241-3 (pb)

This collection brings together the best of Northern Irish playwright
Stewart Parker's literary prose and journalism. What comes across
throughout this volume is Parker's anticipation and intelligence of
the changing cultural conditions of theatre life and play-making in
the closing decades of the twentieth century. Alongside this alert
cosmopolitan sensibility, Parker's experience of living in and through
Belfast's self-inflicted wounding made him keenly aware of what
happens when politics fails to deliver a democratic answer to the
contradictory beliefs of ordinary citizens. His innate scepticism
about politics is etched herein with feisty and unambivalent vigour.

Introduced by Gerald Dawe (TCD). Contents compiled by Gerald Dawe and
Maria Johnston will include Dramatis Personae (Parker's John Malone
Memorial Lecture); a selection of Parker's articles from The Irish
Times, The Belfast News Letter, Honest Ulsterman, Fortnight, The
Evening Standard, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Irish University
Review; and the introductions Parker wrote for Lost Belongings, his
'three plays for Ireland' and Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge.
Postscript by Clare Wallace.


STEWART PARKER SCREENPLAYS
edited by Clare Wallace
ISBN 978-80-7308-240-6 (pb)

Stewart Parker is one of Northern Ireland's most witty, eloquent and
astute playwrights, yet his work for television is little known. This
collection, for the first time, gathers the bulk of his television
drama offering a unique and exciting opportunity to encounter another
dimension to Parker's oeuvre.  His productivity and inventiveness in
this medium match the work for the stage step by step. The plays in
this volume exhibit the range and variety of his drama which
comprehends comedy and tragedy, the challenge of political and social
themes and the exuberance of pure fantasy.

Introduced by Clare Wallace (Charles University). Includes the scripts
and production details of six of Parker's television plays: Lost
Belongings; Radio Pictures; Blue Money; Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in
the Rain; Joyce in June; I'm a Dreamer Montreal.



See the complete Litteraria catalogue at www.litterariapragensia.com
See also the list of Litteraria titles distributed by Shakespeare and
Sons at http://shakes.cz/category/112




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