Alan J. Fletcher, "Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre Cromwellian Ireland: A Repertory of Sources and Documents from the Earliest Times"
D.S.Brewer | August 1, 2000 | ISBN: 0859915735 | PDF | 638 pages | 3.4 MB
This book is the winner of the Beatrice White Prize, awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in English literature before 1590, for 2001. Drama and performance in Ireland call to mind the present rather than the ancient past, yet Irish dramatic and performative traditions were far richer before the coming of Cromwell than has generally been appreciated. This book aims to repair a deficit in our knowledge. It draws together all known documentary evidence for drama and performance in Ireland up until the closure of the first public theatre in Dublin in 1641.