Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment". Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of the Abbey Theatre - Softcover

Fitz-Simon, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190450549X ISBN 13: 9781904505495

Publisher: Carysfort Press, 2011

Synopsis

Exploration of non-literary Irish drama prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

About this title

Review

"[An] exceedingly readable book that makes Irish theatrical scholarship accessible to the non-academic reader. Packed full of archival research and detailed literary analysis, the book is an invaluable resource for understanding the diversity of popular political theatre being produced in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century." -- Irish Literary Supplement "Irish Literary Supplement"

About the Author

Christopher Fitz-Simon is a former Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Among his books are THE BOYS, a biography of the Dublin Gate Theatre's Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammoir - `A really wonderful book' (Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent); `Beautifully written, diligently researched, sometimes sad, often hilarious' (Keith Baxter, Daily Telegraph); `By far the most wideranging and atmospheric description of Dublin's wartime theatre' (Clair Wills in That Neutral Island); and ELEVEN HOUSES, a memoir of the 1940s - `Christopher Fitz-Simon's wry and dispassionate approach keeps the narrative bracing' (Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement); `The sense of total recall is astonishing...it is painfully funny' (Roy Foster, Irish Times).

Edition details

• Publisher: Carysfort Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190450549X
• ISBN 13: 9781904505495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298