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Buffoonery and easy sentiment : popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre / by Christopher Fitz-Simon.

Title
Buffoonery and easy sentiment : popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre / by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Author
Fitz-Simon, Christopher.
Publication
Dublin : Carysfort Press, c2011.

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Abbey Theatre.
Description
287 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
Summary
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th- early 20th century, the author discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination. The form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent.
Alternative Title
Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-268) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Table of professional productions of Irish plays in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, 1895-1904 -- The background to performance -- The playwriting tradition -- A patriotic (or subversive) theatre -- Hubert O'Grady : reformer disguised as a gommoch -- J.W. Whitbread : entrepreneur in John Bull's other island -- True green : Whitbread's Irish heroes -- Truly Irish : a cornucopia of plays and playwrights -- Quasi Irish : a gallery of plays by English and American authors -- Envoi -- Information on first productions.
ISBN
  • 190450549X
  • 9781904505495
OCLC
  • 708219514
  • SCSB-11994487
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library