Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975.
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Irish Literary Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
invited FF
to act as stage manager for the Irish Literary Theatre
in Dublin for its production of The Countess Cathleen the following year. |
| Occupation | Augusta Gregory | With the financial support of Annie Horniman
, AG
and the Irish Literary Theatre
secured a permanent home: the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27. 123 |
| Occupation | Augusta Gregory | A plan for a theatre began to emerge, with the stated mission of show[ing] that Ireland is not the home of buffonery and of easy sentiment, as it has been represented, but the home of... |
| Occupation | Augusta Gregory | Although most of the plays produced by the Irish Literary Theatre
were performed in English, the founders tried hard to get friends in the Gaelic League
to put on plays in the Irish language. Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913. 83 |
| Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | The inaugural night of the Irish Literary Theatre
(founded by Lady Gregory
and WBY
) at the Antient Concert Rooms
, Dublin, presented Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn
's Heather Field. Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Oxford University Press, 1983. 420 Smythe, Colin, Ann Saddlemyer, and Colin Smythe, editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12. 3 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
| politics | Augusta Gregory | AG
's politics remain the subject of critical debate. The difficulty arises over the fact that, as Colm Tóibín
puts it, she managed to inhabit two ideologies—that of the landlord and that of the nationalist—at... |
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