Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment: Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of the Abbey Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781788748629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str.

Christopher Fitz-Simon

Opis

In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: THE BACKGROUND TO PERFORMANCE - THE PLAYWRITING TRADITION - A PATRIOTIC (OR SUBVERSIVE) THEATRE - HUBERT O'GRADY: REFORMER DISGUISED AS A GOMMOCH - J.W. WHITBREAD: ENTREPRENEUR IN JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND - TRUE GREEN: WHITBREAD'S IRISH HEROES - TRULY IRISH: A CORNUCOPIA OF PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS - QUASI IRISH: A GALLERY OF PLAYS BY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS

O autorze

CHRISTOPHER FITZ-SIMON is a former Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Among his books are THE BOYS, a biography of the Dublin Gate Theatre's Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLíammóir - 'A really wonderful book' (Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent); 'Beautifully written, diligently researched, sometimes sad, often hilarious' (Keith Baxter, Daily Telegraph); 'By far the most wideranging and atmospheric description of Dublin's wartime theatre' (Clair Wills in That Neutral Island); and ELEVEN HOUSES, a memoir of the 1940s - 'Christopher Fitz-Simon's wry and dispassionate approach keeps the narrative bracing' (Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement); 'The sense of total recall is astonishing...it is painfully funny' (Roy Foster, Irish Times).