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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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Book/TextUse in library PR8721 .F5 1983Off-site

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Additional Authors
Leonard L. Milberg Irish Theater Collection NjP
Description
208 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
Subject
  • Irish drama > History and criticism
  • Theater > Ireland > History
  • Dramatists, Irish > Biography
  • Actors > Ireland > Biography
  • Actors
  • Dramatists, Irish
  • English drama > Irish authors
  • Literature
  • Theater
  • Ireland > In literature
  • Ireland
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