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The Irish theatre
- Title
- The Irish theatre / Christopher Fitz-Simon.
- Author
- Fitz-Simon, Christopher.
- Publication
- New York : Thames and Hudson, 1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PR8721 .F5 1983 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard L. Milberg Irish Theater Collection NjP
- Description
- 208 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 203-204.
- Source (note)
- Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Paul Muldoon.
- Contents
- Inhospitable soil / religious drama, John Able, earliest colonial theatre, John Ogilby -- French polish in a sink of sin / Roger Boyle, Thomas Southerne, the Smock Alley Theatre -- The lure of London / William Congreve and George Farquhar -- Sentimental comedies and unsentimental comedians / New Dublin theatres, Charles Shadwell, Richard Steele, Arthur Murphy, James Quin, Peg Woffington and others -- Fifty pounds a night / Charles Macklin, Spranger Barry, Thomas Sheridan, the decline of Smock Alley, opening of Capel Street and Crow Street theatres -- A very great man / Oliver Goldsmith -- The best of its kind Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Truly national / the theatre in the provinces, the 'National Theatre', John O'Keefe -- Scenes that are brightest / Kilkenny Private Theatre, more new Dublin theatres, Sheridan Knowles, the lyric theatre -- The stage Irishman / Tyrone Power, Dion Boucicault, Barry Sullivan and others -- A delicate exotic fruit / Oscar Wilde -- The unspeakable Irishman / George Bernard Shaw -- An ancient idealism / the Irish Literary theatre, the National Theatre Society, Augusta Gregory, Edward Martyn, William Butler Yeats and others -- Great literature in a barbarous idiom / John Millington Synge and his followers -- Parlour tragedy and kitchen comedy / Lennox Robinson, T.C. Murray, George Shiels, Paul Vincent Carroll, M.J. Molooy and others -- Green crow and flying wasp / Sean O'Casey -- The brave new Ireland / the Dublin Gate theatre and Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe -- Conservatives and shape-changers / recent developments, Samuel Beckett, contemporary writers including Hugh Leonard, Brian Friel, Eugene McCabe, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Kilroy and others.
- ISBN
- 0500013004
- 9780500013007
- LCCN
- 82074547
- OCLC
- ocm09848517
- 9848517
- SCSB-83720
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library