Abbey Theatre

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Gregory
The volume includes detailed accounts of the Abbey 's encounters with English and Irish censorship, including the struggles over Shaw 's The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Synge 's The Playboy of the Western World...
Textual Production Teresa Deevy
TD 's next play for the Abbey Theatre (after her hit, Katie Roche), turned from the present to the past: The Wild Goose, set in 1692 with the oppression of the Penal Laws...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG published an historical account of the Abbey Theatre entitled Our Irish Theatre, subtitled A Chapter of Autobiography.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, pp. 1-12.
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McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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Textual Production Augusta Gregory
By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...
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
AG had several further one-act comedies produced at the Abbey between 1910 and 1918: Coats (1 December 1910), McDonough's Wife (11 January 1912), Damer's Gold (21 November 1912), Shanwalla (8 April 1915), and Hanrahan's Oath...
Textual Production Catherine Byron
CB issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
prelims
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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Textual Production Augusta Gregory
When the Abbey wished to stage Molière, because his plays seemed akin to our own,AG translated his work into Kiltartan dialect because she could not find an English translation that could go across the...
Textual Production Catherine Carswell
She helped W. G. Fay to write his history of the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (1935), which emphasises the actors and those who managed the...
Textual Production Martin Ross
MR resisted a pressing invitation from W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to write a play with them for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She needed her writings to earn money, but a probably stronger...
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...
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...
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/.

Timeline

1905: The Theatre of Ireland was formed as an offshoot...

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1905

The Theatre of Ireland was formed as an offshoot of the Irish National Dramatic Society at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, because many nationalists believed the theatre group should have a political agenda.

12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...

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12 April 1923

The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey , labourer and IRA member, took off when his playThe Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, which had by...

3 March 1924: Sean O'Casey followed his first success at...

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3 March 1924

Sean O'Casey followed his first success at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, with a play about war entitled Juno and the Paycock.

August 1925: Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre,...

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August 1925

Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, the first and only play to deal with the topic of the Easter Rising of 1916: The Plough and the Stars.

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