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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Abbey Theatre"”.
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A survey of Sean O'Casey's role in the post-war Abbey Theatre : 1923-28
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of English, 1954
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… non-English transnational influence on the Abbey Theatre and the broader Revival project. I furthermore consider how Yeats’ aesthetic project positioned the Abbey Theatre as a site of troubled realist appropriation, arguing that J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World adopted a …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… broadcast on Radio Éireann and performed by the Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre. Her single volume of poetry, Prometheus and Other Poems (1929) was published by Jonathan Cape, and she also collaborated with her husband on a verse-play. I have used contemporary sources -- letters, memoirs, and …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… wake. This study analyzes plays produced by the Abbey theatre during its formative years that intermingle observations of vernacular funerary performances in rural Ireland with ancient Greek precedents. I argue that this intertextual brand of theatrical lamentation frequently constructed gender …
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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
“Last night the new theatre which the Irish National Theatre Society has...was opened under the happiest auspices…Long before the curtain rose the pit and gallery were packed…On Baile’s Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… Augusta Gregory argued the need for an Irish theatre that was demonstrative of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, specifically the Catholic Church and its priests. Yeat's own drama …