Irish Drama (Critical Survey of Drama)
Introduction
“Let us learn construction from the masters and language from ourselves,” William Butler Yeats, one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre, advised aspiring playwrights. Indeed, an aptitude for language and humor was a distinctive feature of drama written by Irish authors, but not until the establishment of the Abbey Theatre at the beginning of the twentieth century was it possible for Irish playwrights to draw on indigenous precedents, distinct from those supplied by England’s...
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