The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

ISBN-13: 9780198121879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 296 str.

Robert Welch

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Welch is persuasive in his detailed analysis of the major playwrights of Abbey history. He superbly charts Yeats's theatrical explorations ... His insights on the work and its relationship to the evolution of Irish society are perceptive and illuminating.