Only True History Of Lizzie Finn

This volume contains the three most recent plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. The plays are "White Woman Street", "Steward of Christendom" and "The Only True History of Lizzie Finn".'A first-rate piece of writing... the simplicity and innocent beauty of the language give it depth and elegiac quality' Independent 'The play, based on Barry's own great-great-grandmother, shows he has the capacity to generate strong emotion and to discover in his ancestors a metaphor for Irish history... Barry uses Lizzie's dilemma to explore the economic decay of the 1890s landowning class and the whaleboned snobberies of rural Ireland... Barry's poetic gift is constantly in evidence.' Guardian