by Frank McGuinness · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571230815
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«Speaking Like Magpies» is the play by Frank McGuinness, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (120 pages, in English).
Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the fourth centenary of the Gunpowder Plot, this play recreates the political and religious atmosphere of England in 1605 around the attempt to assassinate King James I, giving voice to the characters involved in the conspiracy.
The play premiered at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in September 2005, and the original publication date is October 6, 2005.
Professor Frank McGuinness is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen, Garcia Lorca, and Strindberg to critical acclaim". He has also published six collections of poetry, and two novels. McGuinness was Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) from 2007 to 2018.
