The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

For the purposes of this tome, and tome it is, modern Irish theatre started in 1860 with the production of Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn at the Laura Keene Theatre in New York; thus, the work establishes a good early and international framework for modern Irish theatre which would normally be dated from the time of the 1890s, specifically the founding of The Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn in 1897.

Both eminent editors are based in Dublin. Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and author of other...