Shaw, Lady Gregory and the Abbey: A Correspondence and a Record

by Laurence, Dan H.
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ISBN: 9780861402786
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Bernard Shaw, who made his international reputation as a playwright in London, and Augusta Gregory, founder-director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, are generally considered as belonging to different theatrical traditions. But in 1909, when the Abbey produced The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, which had been banned in England, there began a close involvement of Shaw with Irish theatre and a warm personal friendship with Lady Gregory. The complete surviving correspondence between the two, published for the first time, reveals their developing relationship: the battle with Dublin Castle over Blanco, Shaw's support for Lady Gregory in the rows over Synge's Playboy in America; the controversy with military authorities over O'Flaherty V.C., written for the Abbey in 1915; the lively exchange of views on Ireland, politics, the Hugh Lane pictures, the schooling of the Gregory grand-children; which ended only with Lady Gregory's death in 1932.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Laurence, Dan H.
  • ISBN: 9780861402786
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 1996

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