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Abbey Theatre
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Publishing | Teresa Deevy | Ernest Blythe
, the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, rejected TD
's latest play, Wife to James Whelan. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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. 36 , No. 2, pp. 33-5. 33 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Employer | Maya Angelou | In Cairo the African-American journalist David Du Bois
helped MA
to get a job as assistant editor on a new English-language weekly called the Arab Observer (the only non-male, non-Arab, non-Muslim on its staff). In... |
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