English Literature - Prose and Drama

English Literature
English Literature - Prose and Drama

Who among the following founded Abbey theatre ?


Options:

  1. W. B. Yeats and Georgie Hyde
  2. W. B. Yeats and Anne Gregory
  3. W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
  4. W. B. Yeats and Earnest Rhys

Right Answer: W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory

The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, formally the National Theatre of Ireland, was founded in 1904 chiefly by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, with the support of Edward Martyn and John Millington Synge. It grew out of the Irish Literary Theatre and became the artistic centre of the Irish Literary Revival, staging plays that drew on Irish myth, folklore and peasant speech in place of imported English drama. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ famously caused riots there in 1907. Georgie Hyde-Lees was Yeats’s wife and Anne Gregory the subject of one of his poems.

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