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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Lady Augusta"”.
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CHARLOTTE BROOKE AND LADY GREGORY: IRISH LITERARY NATIONALIST WRITERS
… published Reliques of Irish Poetry in 1789. Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) published Cuchulain of Muirthemne in 1902 and Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland in 1920. Each book typifies the interests of the movement in which it was created, but all three have unique characteristics …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… to this conflict of identity, W. B. Yeats and Lady 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 …
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Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)
… Sicily, Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) in Sardinia, Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) and Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) in Ireland, were interested in folklore and ethnographic research and produced works that, beyond their geo-cultural contingencies, are concerned with gender issues. The objective of …
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"Something for the Dignity of Ireland:" Lady Gregory's Portrayal of Deirdre and Maeve in <em>Cuchulain of Muirthemne</em>
<p>This thesis discusses Lady Augusta Gregory's presentation of female characters, particularly Deirdre and Maeve, in her 1902 publication <em>Cuchulain of Muirthemne</em>. Contrary to prevailing ideas, Lady Gregory was a radical, innovative writer with a clear agenda when she arranged, compiled, …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Lady Augusta Gregory's plays frequently and selectively refer to two such vernacular traditions: the caoineadh and the Irish wake. This study analyzes plays produced by the Abbey theatre during its formative years that intermingle observations of …
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In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham
<p>This essay is a look at a little known Irish poet, William Allingham, who invokes the fairy as a vehicle for a political change in Ireland. It offers a close reading of a few of his poems as well as historically approaches the use of fairies in the popular culture of the nineteenth century. In …