Shaun Richards (Editor), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Book Review‪)‬

Shaun Richards (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 304 pages. STG 45.00/16.95. This collection of nineteen new essays on Irish drama, edited by Shaun Richards, arrived just in time for the 2004 Abbey Theatre centenary celebrations. Like the 'abbeyonehundred' programme itself, Richards's book offers a valuable opportunity to reflect upon a century of theatre-making in Ireland, while also revealing how contemporary conceptions of the Irish dramatic canon--and the Abbey's place in its formation--are currently undergoing reappraisal.