The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

ISBN-13: 9780199261352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 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 has one major advantage over the previous historians of the Abbey. As a fluent Irish speaker and writer who has published in both languages, he is in a position to assess the Irish-language repertory of the Abbey as well as the English.