A Century of Irish Drama
Subtitle: Widening the Stage (Drama and Performance Studies)
Contributors: Stephen Watt (Editor); Eileen Marie Morgan (Editor); Shakir M. Mustafa (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780253214195
Subjects: Plays & playwrights; Theatre, drama; 20th century; Drama; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; Theater - History & Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Congresses; English drama; History; History and criticism; Irish authors; Theater
First sentence: During one of his early ventures into theatre-the production of The Land of Heart's Desire in 1894- W. B. Yeats wrote to the old Fenian John O'Leary that "The whole venture will be history any way for it is the first contest between the old commercial school of theatrical folk &amp; the new artistic school" (qtd. in Foster, W. B. Yeats 142).