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Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey.(George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey)(Critical Essay)

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From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20030322
Author:Levitas, Ben

Early in 1899 the seedling Irish Socialist Republican Party held a public meeting to consider what had become a salient question. The minutes record that on 12 February Frederick Ryan 'delivered a lecture entitled "A Word on the Democratic Drama" in the course of which he dealt with and read extracts from the plays of Isben Isici and Bernard Shaw'. (1) Elsewhere in Dublin arrangements were underway for the inauguration of a new theatrical dynasty. W.B. Yeats exerted his prodigious energies publicizing the first stagings of the Irish Literary Theatre, soon to result in debut ...

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