{"product_id":"9781904505495","title":"Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment: Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of the Abbey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Buffoonery \u0026amp; Easy Sentiment\" - the phrase used by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to dismiss the popular Irish theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th - early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics at once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe form was the fashionable one of melodrama, yet Irish melodrama was of a particular kind replete with hidden messages, and the language was far more allusive, colourful and entertaining than that of its English equivalent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was much diversity, as shown in plays as different as Murray \u0026amp; Shine's An Irish Gentleman, Hubert O'Grady's The Priest Hunter, J.W.Whitbread's The Victoria Cross and Edward Selden's McKenna's Flirtation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carysfort Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046835372272,"sku":"9781904505495","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904505495_p0.jpg?v=1763613825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904505495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}