Setting the Stage: Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950 - Philip O'Leary - Books - Cork University Press - 9781782054580 - November 12, 2021
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Setting the Stage: Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950

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There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations. The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst.


308 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 12, 2021
ISBN13 9781782054580
Publishers Cork University Press
Pages 308
Dimensions 241 × 169 × 31 mm   ·   658 g
Language English