The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999: Form and Pressure

By Robert Welch

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A century ago this year, productions of W.B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field launched what was to become Ireland's National Theatre, named after its home on Abbey Street, Dublin. This is the first history of the Abbey Theatre to set the plays and the personalities in their historical and political context and to describe the theatre's artistic development.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198121873

ISBN13:9780198121879

Release Date:January 2000

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:294 Pages

Weight:1.41 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.9" x 9.1"

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