Synopses & Reviews
A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's National Theatre, named after its home on Abbey Street, Dublin. This is the first history of the Abbey Theatre to set the plays and the personalities in their historical and political context and to describe the theatre's artistic development.
Review
"[Offers] exhaustive synopsis and appraisal of hundreds of plays, by scores of playwrights.... [An] unflaggingly thorough and enthusiastic history."--English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index.
Table of Contents
Prologue 1.
1. 1899-1902, 'Four Green Fields'
2. 1902-1910, 'Screeching in a Straightened Waistcoat'
3. 1911-1925, 'O Absalom, my son'
4. 1926-1951, 'The birth of a nation is no immaculate conception'
5. 1951-1966, 'I remember everything'
6. 1966-1985, 'History is personal'
7. 1985-1999, 'The dead are not the past, the dead are the future'
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index