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The first performance of this ‘trivial, unambitious retelling of an old folk-tale [which] showed William Fay for the first time as a most loveable comedian’ (A 452), was given in Dublin, 30 October 1902, in the Antient Concert Rooms. It was written with Lady Gregory’s help, but ‘neither Lady Gregory nor I could yet distinguish between the swift-moving town dialect — the dialect of the Irish novelists no matter what part of Ireland they wrote of — and the slow-moving country dialect’ (A 451). It proved hardly less popular than Cathleen ni Haulihan.
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© 1975 A. Norman Jeffares and A. S. Knowland
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Jeffares, A.N., Knowland, A.S. (1975). The Pot of Broth. In: A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01076-9_4
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