CONTENTS The Celtic Renaissance The Players and their Plays, their Audience and their Art Mr. William Butler Yeats Mr. Edward Martyn and Mr. George Moore Mr. George W. Russell ("A. E.") Lady Gregory John Millington Synge The Younger Dramatists - Mr. Padraic Colum; Mr. William Boyle; Mr. T. C. Murray; Mr. S. Lennox Robinson; Mr. Rutherford Mayne; "Norreys Connell"; Mr. St. John G. Ervine; Mr. Joseph Campbell William Sharp ("Fiona Macleod") Appendix - Plays Produced, in Dublin, by the Abbey Theatre Company Index
CONTENTS The Celtic Renaissance The Players and their Plays, their Audience and their Art Mr. William Butler Yeats Mr. Edward Martyn and Mr. George Mo...
To the general reader the Celtic Renaissance was a surprise, and even to Irish writers deeply interested in their country the phenomenon or movement, call it which you will, was not appreciated as of much significance at its beginning. Writing in 1892, Miss Jane Barlow was not hopeful for the immediate future of English literature in Ireland;-it seemed to her "difficult to point out any quarter of the horizon as a probable source of rising light."
To the general reader the Celtic Renaissance was a surprise, and even to Irish writers deeply interested in their country the phenomenon or movement, ...
