Behind the scenes : Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre

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Behind the scenes : Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre

Adrian Frazier

(The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor, 11)

University of California Press, c1990

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. 241-250

Includes index

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Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved the spirited participation of actors, audiences, press, and financiers as well as of the famous poet-playwright who was its co-director. His book unfolds an entertaining and suspenseful tale, centered on the undeniably autocratic personality of W.B. Yeats and with the political struggles of Ireland as a backdrop.

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