EAN: 9783030095345

BERNARD SHAW AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES LADY GREG...

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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