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Title
Lady Gregory and Irish national theatre : art, drama, politics / Eglantina Remport.
ISBN
9783319766119 (electronic book)
3319766112 (electronic book)
9783319766102
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PR4728.G5 Z76 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.912
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It elaborates on her distinctive vision of the social role of a National Theatre in Ireland, especially in relation to the various reform movements of her age: the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, the Co-operative Movement, and the Home Industries Movement. It illustrates the impact of John Ruskin on the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Gregory and her circle that included Horace Plunkett, George Russell, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. All of these friends visited the celebrated Gregory residence of Coole Park in Country Galway, most famously Yeats. The study thus provides a pioneering evaluation of Ruskin's immense influence on artistic, social, and political discourse in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 7, 2018).
Series
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319766102
1. Introduction
2. "My Education:" Sir William Gregory, the Grand Tours, and the Visual Arts
3. "The 'whorl' of Troy:" Celtic Mythology, Victorian Hellenism, and the Irish Literary Revival
4. "Ní neart go cur le chéile:" Education, Social Reform, and the Abbey Theatre
5. "See a play as a picture:" the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Sister Arts, and the Irish Plays
6. The Light of the World: Christianity, Cultural Politics, and Constitutional Reform
7. Conclusion.
