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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"the Abbey Theatre"”.
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
This thesis explores Mary Devenport O'Neill’s (1879-1967) writing in its contemporary aesthetic contexts and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive examination of Devenport’scomplete work. I ask how her writing and artistic …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
"Funerary performances loom large in the earliest accounts of Ireland and Irishness that come down to us. In colonial Ireland, unregulated wakes and funerary traditions endured in spite of legal and ecclesiastical attempts to police death’s meaning according to the interests of the dominant power …
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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 …