The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999
Form and Pressure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Welch (0000-0003-1819-6120, corresponding author), Robert Anthony Welch |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121879.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2479004910 |
| Open Library | OL6806540M |
| ISBN | 9780198121879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A century ago this year, productions of W. B. Yeats' The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field inaugurated the Irish Literary Theatre, which was to take its name from its home in Abbey Street, Dublin. Despite riot, fire, and critical controversy, the Abbey Theatre has housed Ireland's National Theatre ever since. This is the first history of the Abbey to discuss the plays and the personalities in their underlying historical and political context, to give due weight to the theatre's work in Irish, and to take stock of its artistic and financial development up to the present. The research for the book draws extensively on archive sources, especially the manuscript holdings on the Abbey at the National Library of Ireland. Many outstanding plays are examined, with detailed analysis of their form and their affective and emotional content; and persistent themes in the Abbey's output are identified — visions of an ideal community; the revival of Irish; the hunger for land and money; the restrictions of a society undergoing profound change. But these are integrated with accounts of the Abbey's people, from Yeats, Martyn, and Lady Gregory, whose brainchild it was, to the actors, playwrights, directors, and managers who have followed — among them the Fays, Synge, O'Casey, Murray, Robinson, Shiels, Johnston, Murphy, Molloy, Friel, McGuiness, Deevy, Carr, and many others. The role of directors and policy-makers, and the struggle for financial security, subsidy, and new-style ‘partnerships’, is discussed as a crucial part of the theatre's continuing evolution
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Irish · Literature · Political science · Political theatre · Politics · Praise · Sociology · Theatre director · Vision · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies · 20th century · Abbey Theatre · Dublin · ireland · Theater
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |