Irish Plays and PlaywrightsHoughton Mifflin, 1913 - 314 страница Critical analysis including the players and their plays, their audience and their art: W.B. Yeats, "A. E.", Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, P. Colum, and others. Also plays produced in Dublin by the Abbey Theatre Company. |
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Abbey Theatre actors Aran audience beauty believe Boyle Cathleen ni Houlihan Celtic Renaissance characters Colum comedy Connacht Countess Cathleen Cuchulain death Deirdre dialogue Diarmid Douglas Hyde drama dramatist dream Dublin English farce father feel Finn Fiona Macleod Gael Glen Grania Grogan heart Heather Field Highland human humor Hyde Ibsen imagination interest Ireland Irish Literary Theatre Irishmen Lady Gregory land Lennox Robinson literature lover lyric Maeve Martyn Mayne memory moods Moore movement mystic Nora old Irish Padraic Colum patriotic perhaps play Playboy Players poems poet poetry priest prose realize romance Russell Silence Farm song spirit stage Standish James O'Grady story style surely symbol Synge T. C. MURRAY tale tells things thought tinker tion to-day true dramatic speech turned verse W. B. Yeats wild William Sharp woman women wonder words writing written wrote young youth
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Страница 187 - Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted or tender is not made by feeble blood. It may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
Страница 159 - It's little you'll think if my love's a poacher's or an earl's itself, when you'll feel my two hands stretched around you, and I squeezing kisses on your puckered lips, till I'd feel a kind of pity for the Lord God is all ages sitting lonesome in His golden chair.
Страница 174 - On the stage one must have reality, and one must have joy; and that is why the intellectual modern drama has failed, and people have grown sick of the false joy of the musical comedy that has been given them in the place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality.
Страница 159 - If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.
Страница 121 - ... itself present through all ages. Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened ? The emphasis of facts and persons in my thought has nothing to do with time.
Страница 163 - Why would I marry you. Mike Dara? You'll be getting old and I'll be getting old, and in a little while I'm telling you, you'll be sitting up in your bed — the way himself was sitting — with a shake in your face, and your teeth falling, and the white hair sticking out round you like an old bush where sheep do be leaping a gap.
Страница 159 - I will not, then, and when the airs is warming in four months, or five, it's then yourself and me should be pacing Neifin in the dews of night, the times sweet smells do be rising, and you'd see a little shiny new moon, maybe, sinking on the hills.
Страница 52 - All would be well Could we but give us wholly to the dreams, And get into their world that to the sense Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly Among substantial things; for it is dreams That lift us to the flowing, changing world That the heart longs for.
Страница 71 - Russian movement of the early 'seventies, and the drama of society would but magnify a condition of life which the countryman and the artisan could but copy to their hurt. The play that is to give them a quite natural pleasure should tell them either of their own life, or of that life of poetry where every man can see his own image, because there alone does human nature escape from arbitrary conditions.
Страница 157 - Ten thousand blessings upon all that's here, for you've turned me a likely gaffer in the end of all, the way I'll go romancing through a romping lifetime from this hour to the dawning of the Judgment Day.