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Christopher Fitz-Simon

Christopher Fitz-Simon is a former Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; The Irish Theatre Company and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Among his books are THE BOYS, a biography of the Dublin Gate Theatre's Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammoir and ELEVEN HOUSES, a memoir of the 1940s.

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'Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment': Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre In 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.

'Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment': Popular Irish plays in the decade prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre

‘In 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.’

Christopher Fitz-Simon

‘In 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.’

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ISBN 978-1-904505-49-5

Cost €20.00