Saint Oscar and Other Plays

by Terry Eagleton

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and Gods Locusts. The first two originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. God's Locusts was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Genres: Plays

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Terry Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures and gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.

Reviews

[Ai Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just gorgeous--a deeply powerful exploration of the contradictions of Oscar Wilde. Eagleton's dialogue HITS, and I think the court scene in particular was powerful, and seeing it live would be wild (in a good, emotional way.) There's also SO MUCH to dig into here--I feel like I would benefit from reading it about 8 times over, in addition to seeing it live. Just a really powerful piece.

[Mickey · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Myths are fictions that have forgotten they're such."