The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O'Casey

by Elizabeth Mannion

Ireland's Abbey Theatre was founded 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,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081563367X
• ISBN13: 9780815633679
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"