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"""Offers an invaluable tool for advancing knowledge in the fields of drama, performance, and Irish studies with its close attention to the underexamined institution of the Gate Theatre. . . . This book will make a significant and long-lasting impact in Irish studies, theatre studies, and accounts of mid-century modernism.""—Paige Reynolds, author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle ""For many years, the accepted story of Irish theatre was that the Abbey was the writers’ theatre, and its rival, the Gate, was primarily a producing house. Making use of newly available archival sources, Ruud van den Beuken turns the old story on its head, and in so doing forces us to rethink Irish theatre. This book demands our attention.""—Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin"

For many years, the accepted story of Irish theatre was that the Abbey was the writers' theatre, and its rival, the Gate, was primarily a producing house. Making use of newly available archival sources, Ruud van den Beuken turns the old story on its head, and in so doing forces us to rethink Irish theatre. This book demands our attention.-- Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin Offers an invaluable tool for advancing knowledge in the fields of drama, performance, and Irish studies with its close attention to the underexamined institution of the Gate Theatre. . . . This book will make a significant and long-lasting impact in Irish studies, theatre studies, and accounts of mid-century modernism.-- Paige Reynolds, author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle Van den Beuken deftly maps complex strands of MacLiammoir's hybrid personality on to the cultural productions at the Gate.-- Anthony Roche, The Irish Times

Offers an invaluable tool for advancing knowledge in the fields of drama, performance, and Irish studies with its close attention to the underexamined institution of the Gate Theatre. . . . This book will make a significant and long-lasting impact in Irish studies, theatre studies, and accounts of mid-century modernism.--Paige Reynolds, author of Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle For many years, the accepted story of Irish theatre was that the Abbey was the writers' theatre, and its rival, the Gate, was primarily a producing house. Making use of newly available archival sources, Ruud van den Beuken turns the old story on its head, and in so doing forces us to rethink Irish theatre. This book demands our attention.--Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin

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Ruud van den Beuken is assistant professor of English literature at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He was awarded the 2015 Irish Society for Theatre Research New Scholars' Prize.

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