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The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre - Beyond O'Casey (Hardcover)
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The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre - Beyond O'Casey (Hardcover)
Series: Irish Studies
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Ireland's Abbey Theatre opened in 1904. Under the guidance of W. B.
Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, it became instrumental to the
success of many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the
early twentieth century. Conventional wisdom holds that the
playwright Sean O'Casey was the first to offer a new vision of
Irish authenticity in the people and struggles of inner-city Dublin
in his groundbreaking trilogy The Shadow of a Gunman, The Ploughand
the Stars, and Juno and the Paycock. Challenging this view, Mannion
argues that there was an established tradition of urban plays
within the Abbeyrepertoire that has long been overlooked by
critics. She seeks to restore attention to a lesser-known corpus of
Irish urban plays, specifically those that appeared at the Abbey
Theatre from the theatre's founding until 1951, when the original
theatre was destroyed by fire. Mannion illustrates distinct
patterns within this Abbey urban genre and considers in particular
themes of poverty, gender, and class. She provides historical
context for the plays and considers the figures who helped shape
the Abbey and this urban subset of plays. With detailed analysis of
box office records and extensive appendixes of cast members and
production schedules, this book offers a rich source of archival
material as well as a fascinating revision to the story of this
celebrated institution.
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