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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act comedy about madness and sanity, The Full Moon, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | A production of AG
's The Deliverer and Yeats
's The Hour-Glass at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was the first to use screens designed by Edward Gordon-Craig
. 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 Innes, Christopher. Edward Gordon Craig. Cambridge University Press, 1983. 143, 221 |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act tragedy The Gaol Gate was first performed 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. x |
| Author summary | Catherine Carswell | CC
is best known for her 1920 novel, Open the Door!, and her insightful critical biography of her close friend D. H. Lawrence
. Her literary corpus consists of two novels, three biographies, and... |
| Author summary | Augusta Gregory | Augusta Gregory
was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired... |
| Publishing | George Bernard Shaw | The play was supposed to be performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, but the directors were concerned that its honest portrayal of Ireland would alienate their audience. |
| Publishing | Teresa Deevy | Ernest Blythe
, the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, rejected TD
's latest play, Wife to James Whelan. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
| Publishing | Teresa Deevy | Meanwhile TD
had signed a contract with the Abbey Theatre
for her next play, Holiday House, in early 1939. But the play was never produced, and Deevy was never able to get an honest... |
| Publishing | Michael Field | The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats
had turned down... |
| Reception | Teresa Deevy | This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll
's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey
's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey
in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor
wrote... |
| Reception | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse... |
| Textual Features | Constance Countess Markievicz | The play is written in the style and language of peasant plays made popular earlier in the century by the Abbey Theatre
. Markievicz's three central characters are: Eileen, the heroine who is a physically... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Byron | CB
issued her second volume of poetry, entitled Samhain—which was originally the title of a journal published by W. B. Yeats
from October 1901 to November 1908 to publicize productions at the Abbey Theatre
. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1993. prelims Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol. 36 , No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5. 33 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | She helped W. G. Fay
to write his history of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (1935), which emphasises the actors and those who managed the... |
| Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
published an historical account of the Abbey Theatre
entitled Our Irish Theatre, subtitled A Chapter of Autobiography. Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12. 8 McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
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