Abbey Theatre in the Irish Literary Renaissance

Andrew E. Malone (essay date 1938)


Andrew E. Malone (essay date 1938)

SOURCE: Malone, Andrew E. “The Early History of the Abbey Theatre.” In The Irish Theatre: Lectures Delivered During the Abbey Theatre Festival Held in Dublin in August 1938, edited by Lennox Robinson, pp. 3-29. London, Great Britain: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1939.

[In the following essay, originally given at the first Abbey Theatre Dramatic Festival in 1938, Malone recounts the early history of the Abbey Theatre.]

Conscious as I am of the great compliment which has been paid to me by the invitation to...

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