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Lecture by Prof. Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin
A Spring 2018 Program Sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship.
Professor Nicholas Grene
Trinity College Dublin
Professor Nicholas Grene of Trinity College Dublin will return to Montclair State University on Tuesday, March 20th, to deliver a lecture on "Home and Away: the rural Irish short story."
The lecture is scheduled for 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. in Dickson 179 and forms part of the English Department's graduate seminar in the Irish Revival. Professor Grene has lectured at Montclair before and is happy to be returning to meet our students and faculty again. Grene's main research interest is in drama, with a focus on Shakespeare and modern Irish theatre. He is the author of many books, among them Synge: a Critical Study of the Plays (Macmillan, 1975), Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière: the Comic Contract (Macmillan, 1980), Bernard Shaw: a Critical View (Macmillan, 1984), Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination (Macmillan, 1992), The Politics of Irish Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Yeats's Poetic Codes (Oxford University Press, 2008) and R.K. Narayan (Northcote House 2011). His most recent book is The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer. Grene grew up on a farm in County Wicklow, and his talk next week forms part of a new book (now in progress) on the literature of the Irish farm. For copies of the stories he will be discussing in the seminar on Tuesday, write Professor Lucy McDiarmid at <mcdiarmidL@montclair.edu>.
Nicholas Grene's lecture is sponsored by the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professorship.