CRITICISM

FitzGerald, Mary. “How the Abbey Said No: Readers' Reports and the Rejection of The Silver Tassie.” In O'Casey Annual No. 1, edited by Robert G. Lowery, pp. 73-87. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan Press, 1982.

Explores the politics and personalities behind the Abbey Theatre's rejection of Sean O'Casey's 1929 play The Silver Tassie in the waning years of the Irish Renaissance.

Peterson, Richard F., and Gary Phillips. “W. B. Yeats and Norreys Connell.” In Yeats Annual No. 2, edited by Richard J. Finneran, pp. 46-58. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan Press, 1983.

Considers the relationship between Yeats and Norreys Connell, whom Yeats hired as a managing director after John Millington Synge's death in 1909, and suggests that Connell found his brief tenure at the Abbey Theatre to be a frustrating experience, although he maintained his friendship with Yeats.