Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, produced AG
's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière
's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations.. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yeats
produced GBS
's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxv |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | The only new TD
play seen in connection with the Abbey
, Dublin, after the rejection of Wife to James Whelan was Light Falling (already heard on radio), staged by Ria Mooney
and the... |
Author summary | Catherine Carswell | CC
is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence
. Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and... |
Author summary | Augusta Gregory | Augusta Gregory
was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired... |
Publishing | Teresa Deevy | Meanwhile TD
had signed a contract with the Abbey Theatre
for her next play, Holiday House, in early 1939. But the play was never produced, and Deevy was never able to get an honest... |
Publishing | Michael Field | The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats
had turned down... |
Publishing | Teresa Deevy | Ernest Blythe
, the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, rejected TD
's latest play, Wife to James Whelan. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Publishing | George Bernard Shaw | The play was supposed to be performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, but the directors were concerned that its honest portrayal of Ireland would alienate their audience. |
Reception | Teresa Deevy | This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll
's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey
's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey
in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor
wrote... |
Reception | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse... |
Textual Features | Constance, Countess Markievicz | The play is written in the style and language of peasant plays made popular earlier in the century by the Abbey Theatre
. Markievicz's three central characters are: Eileen, the heroine who is a physically... |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
wrote several first-rate comedies (many of them set in the fictional Irish village of Cloon), yet she found them difficult and was often apologetic about writing them. She claimed to have created them primarily... |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory |
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