TY - BOOK ID - 33057070 TI - Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre : Art, Drama, Politics PY - 2018 SN - 3319766104 3319766112 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - Theater KW - Cultural studies KW - Study and teaching. KW - History. KW - Theater-History. KW - Theater. KW - Theater—Production and direction. KW - British literature. KW - Theatre History. KW - National/Regional Theatre and Performance. KW - Theatre Industry. KW - Theatre Direction and Production. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - History KW - Gregory, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Abbey Theatre. KW - Gregory, Augusta Persse, KW - Gregory, Isabella Augusta Persse, KW - Persse, Isabella Augusta, KW - Dublin. KW - Teatr Abbatstva KW - Irish National Theatre Society KW - Irish Literary Theatre KW - Theater—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33057070 AB - 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. ER -