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Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox
Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox (1886–1958), Irish dramatist, manager of the Abbey Theatre, 1910–14 and 1919–23, when he became the director until his death. Among his best-known plays are The Clancy Name (1911); the patriotic Harvest (1911) and Patriots (1912); The Whiteheaded Boy, a comedy (1920); Crabbed Youth and Age (1924); the ambitious The Big House (1928), on the changing state of Ireland; and two successful later comedies, The Far-off Hills (1931) and Church Street (1955). He also edited the Oxford Book of Irish Verse (with D. MacDonagh, 1958) and other anthologies; and wrote The Irish Theatre (1939) and Ireland's Abbey Theatre. A History (1951).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RobinsonEsmStuartLennox.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Robinson, (Esmé Stuart) Lennox." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RobinsonEsmStuartLennox.html |
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Lennox Robinson
Lennox Robinson 1886–1958, Irish dramatist. From 1910 to 1923 he was manager of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and he served as director there from 1923 until his death. The comedy The White Headed Boy (1920) was his outstanding early success. His later dramas of Irish life, which include The Big House (1926) and Drama at Inish (1933; in America, Is Life Worth Living? ), are characterized by a somber realism. He edited The Irish Theatre (lectures, 1939) and Lady Gregory's journals (1946), and he also wrote a study of W. B. Yeats (1939).
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"Lennox Robinson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lennox Robinson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RbnsnL.html "Lennox Robinson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-RbnsnL.html |
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