"Buffoonery and easy sentiment" : popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of The Abbey Theatre

Publication Data

• Title "Buffoonery and easy sentiment" : popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of The Abbey Theatre
• Author Christopher Fitz-Simon
• Publisher Carysfort Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Dublin
• Language English

Contents

Table of professional productions of Irish plays in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, 1895-1904
The background to performance
The playwriting tradition
A patriotic (or subversive) theatre
Hubert O'Grady : reformer disguised as a gommoch
J.W. Whitbread : entrepreneur in John Bull's other island
True green : Whitbread's Irish heroes
Truly Irish : a cornucopia of plays and playwrights
Quasi Irish : a gallery of plays by English and American authors
Envoi
Information on first productions.

Topics

• Whitbread, James W., 1848-1916 :: Dramatic works
• Theater :: Ireland :: 19th century
• Theater :: Ireland :: 20th century
• English drama :: Ireland :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• English drama :: Ireland :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• Ireland :: In literature
• Ireland

"Buffoonery and easy sentiment" : popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of The Abbey Theatre by Christopher Fitz-Simon. ISBN 9781904505495. Published by Carysfort Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.