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When W. B. Yeats was hurriedly summoned to the Abbey Theatre stage in 1924, during the deliberately conconcted hullabaloo against O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars [sic ]1 he calmly adjusted his monocle and said to the hooligan demonstrators in the audience, ‘You have disgraced yourselves — again!’ His ‘again’ was a reference back to the much earlier riot during the staging of Synge’s The Playboy.
Theatre Arts (New York), 36 (Jan 1952) 18–19, 79.
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See Paul Vincent Carroll, ‘The Irish Theatre (Post War)’, in International Theatre, ed. John Andrews and Ossia Trilling (London: Simpson Low, 1949) pp. 122–8;
Paul A. Boyle, Paul Vincent Carroll (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1971).
See F. S. L. Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine (Fontana, 1973) pp. 560, 572–9.
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Carroll, P.V. (1988). Can the Abbey Theatre be Restored?. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_47
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