John Bull's Other Island: And Major Barbara How He Lied to Her Husband
Book Description
John Bull s Other Island was written in 190431 therequest of Mr William Butler Yeats, as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the I rish Literary Theatre. Like most people who have asked me to write plays, Mr Yeats got rather more than he bargained for. The play was at that time beyond the resources of the new Abbey Theatre, which the I rish enterprise owed to the public spirit of Miss A. ...
MoreJohn Bull s Other Island was written in 190431 therequest of Mr William Butler Yeats, as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the I rish Literary Theatre. Like most people who have asked me to write plays, Mr Yeats got rather more than he bargained for. The play was at that time beyond the resources of the new Abbey Theatre, which the I rish enterprise owed to the public spirit of Miss A. E. F. Horniman (an Englishwoman, of course), who, twelve years ago, played an important part in the history of the modern English stage as well as in my own personal destiny by providing the necessary capital for that memorable season at the A venue Theatre which forced my Arms and The Man and Mr Yeats s Land of Heart s Desire on the recalcitrant London playgoer, and gave a third I rish playwright, Dr John Todhunter, an opportunity which the commercial theatres could not have afforded him. There was another reason for changing the destination of John Bull s Other I sland. It was uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-G aelic movement, which is bent on creating a new I reland after its own ideal, whereas my play is a very uncompromising presentment of the real old I reland. The next thing that happened was the production of the play in London at the Court Theatre by Messrs Vedrenne and Barker, and its immediate and enormous popularity with delighted and flattered English
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