“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Abbey Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | WBY
's last play, Purgatory, was performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, alongside a revival of the two plays produced when the theatre first opened, Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand. |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Unicorn from the Stars, co-written by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. x |
| Performance of text | Jennifer Johnston | It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin in 1979. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. “Jennifer Johnston”. doollee.com. Playwrights. |
| Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Augusta Gregory
collaborated with Yeats on a revised version of this play, The Unicorn from the Stars, which opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin on 21 November 1907. |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's The Travelling Man, a miracle play co-written with W. B. Yeats
, was first produced at the Abbey
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions, 1966. 75 |
| Performance of text | Jennifer Johnston | Her Selected Short Plays, published in 2003, includes the texts of Moonlight and Music (a one-acter first produced during the YK2 Festival at Dublin in 2000),Mustn't Forget High Noon, O Ananias, Azarias... |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's most controversial play, The Playboy of the Western World, premiered at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, starring May Craig
. Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1994. 186 Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 13 |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's first full-length play, The Image, opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | For the first time the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, persuaded by Lennox Robinson
, put on a production of a play by TD
: The Reapers in three acts. Robinson directed. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's final three-act play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, which he worked and reworked but left unfinished, was staged at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xxvi Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 138 |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, produced AG
's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière
's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations.. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. x |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's second play to open at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was her one-act comedy A Disciple. “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database, 2003. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's third play in thirty months premiered at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin: Temporal Powers, called by Chris Morash
her first major play. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline, Introduction |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | The Abbey Theatre
put on TD
's powerful new one-act play entitled The King of Spain's Daughter. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
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