Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982.
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Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
and FF
gave a lecture on Poetry and the Living Voice at Clifford's Inn in Fleet Street: Yeats presented his theory of musical recitation, and then Farr illustrated by chanting a... |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | The first idea for the Irish Literary Theatre developed as AG
, W. B. Yeats
, and Edward Martyn
were discussing the latter's play Maeve, and asked themselves why it could not be staged... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co.
, which was... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In September 1905, JMS
, along with Yeats
and Lady Gregory
, became directors of the company. George Russell
and Fred Ryan
were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society
. Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 11-12 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xxiv Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1994. 156 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | Annie Horniman
, whom FF
met through the Order of the Golden Dawn
, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats
to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted... |
Occupation | Maud Gonne | MG
played the heroine in Augusta Gregory
's and Yeats
's Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Irish National Theatre
's production, opening on 2 April 1902. This role made her a symbol of the nation. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
retired temporarily from the stage in 1897, disappointed at not having received the same recognition as other New Woman actresses (Elizabeth Robins
, for instance). Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 67 |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Working again through the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
lectured on Austen
, Eliot
, and Yeats
in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth, 1995. 283-4 |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
wrote to her of this book: You have the gift to describe many people with sympathy and even with admiration and yet to leave them their distinct characters. qtd. in Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., Nov. 1953, pp. 323-36. 331 |
Literary responses | Martin Ross | Most of the reviews were excellent, but the Westminster Gazette gave the book a furious tearing. qtd. in Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 103 qtd. in Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 129 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
Literary responses | James Joyce | Though Joyce often railed against hisnative city, he felt that depicting it made him a pioneer. Dublin, he wrote, was second only to London among British cities and was three times the size of Venice:... |
Literary responses | Florence Farr | Reviews were mixed: some found the plays bizarre, and others (including Yeats
) admired their religious fervour. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 91 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
's introduction praised her for uniting a modern subject and vocabulary with traditional richness. Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, 1936, p. vii - xv. x |
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