Synopsis
Gathers the preeminent poet's essays on drama and the movement that led to today's Irish theater, which were written between 1899 and 1919, in a collection that covers such topics as the Abbey Theatre, the plays of John Millington Synge, and the relationship between drama and nationalism.
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About the Author
The late Mary FitzGerald was Professor of English and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Among her numerous publications in Anglo-Irish studies were an edition of Selected Plays of Lady Gregory and the Cornell Yeats edition of the manuscripts of Yeats's play The Words Upon the Window-pane.
Synopsis
The poet's memoir of the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the century--a movement for a renewed Irish literature and a commitment to Irish nationalism--includes his impassioned defense of a popular Irish theater.
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