Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment : Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of The Abbey Theatre
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th- early 20th century,
Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland
and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics:
At once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political a...
In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th- early 20th century,
Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland
and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics:
At once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political a...
