Cregan (theater, Villanova U.) identifies the qualities that he believes makes McGuinness one of the major figures of Irish drama, in the same class as Yeats, Beckett, Friel, and Tom Murphy.
Among his topics are homosexual representation of Irish identity in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Dolly West's Kitchen, the wild Irishman in Gates of Gold, and holy
irreverence in The Gospel According to Judas. Interviews with McGuiness and with Patrick Mason are appended. He has not indexed his work. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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