The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure
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.
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The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure
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.
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The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

by Robert Welch
The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

by Robert Welch

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198121879
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/20/2000
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Ulster at Coleraine

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'EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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