Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999 - Form and Pressure

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This history of Dublin's Abbey Theatre discusses the plays and the personalities in their underlying historical and political context, to give due weight to the theatre's work in Irish, and to take stock of its artistic and financial development after 100 years.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Welch, Robert (Professor of English and Director o Welch
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2003
• EAN: 9780199261352
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926135-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Form and Pressure; Form and Pressure
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism