San Antonio College Library

"For more than 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences. However, Irish theater as represented on the American stage is merely a sampling of the national drama, and the underlying causes of Irish dramatic success in America illuminate the cultural state of both countries at specific historical moments. Irish Theater in America is the first book devoted entirely to the long history of...

The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late 19th-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals.