Rhapsody in Stephens Green: And the Insect Play

By Flann O'Brien

Using a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann O'Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking- territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective, targeting race, religion, greed, identity and purpose. With his extraordinary ear for dialogue, O'Brien creates his own fantastical world, and the outcome is a hilarious satire of Irish stereotypes - as Orangemen, Dubliners, Corkagians and culchies become warring ants, bees, crickets, dung-beetles, and other small-minded invertebrae. The lost text of this play, Hilton Edwards' prompt copy from the 1943 Gate Theatre performance, was discovered in the archives at Northwestern University, Illinois.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874675279
• ISBN13: 9781874675273
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 11.1"