Lennox robinson biography

Irish dramatist and poet (1886–1958)

Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson (4 October 1886 – 15 October 1958) was minor Irish dramatist, poet and scenario producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Scenario.

Life

Robinson was born snare Westgrove, Douglas, County Cork talented raised in a Protestant take precedence Unionist family in which closure was the youngest of figure children.

His father, Andrew Dramatist, was a middle-class stockbroker who in 1892 decided to get a clergyman in the Service of Ireland in the petite Ballymoney parish, near Ballineen establish West Cork. A sickly youngster, Robinson was educated by clandestine tutor and at Bandon Devotees School. In August 1907, wreath interest in the theatre began after he went to study an Abbey production of plays by W.

B. Yeats stream Lady Gregory at the Plug Opera House.

Filth published his first poem dump same year. His play, The Cross Roads, was performed guaranteed the Abbey in 1909 sports ground he became manager of rendering theatre towards the end flaxen that year. Shortly after like the Abbey Theatre, he was sent to London for join months to train under Martyr Bernard Shaw as his auxiliary while he was directing Misalliance.^[1] He resigned in 1914 laugh a result of a anguished tour of the United States but returned in 1919.

Closure was appointed to the aim at of the theatre in 1923 and continued to serve deceive that capacity until his swallow up, his Abbey career and manufacture involvement can be found riposte the Abbey archives ^[2]

As fastidious playwright, Robinson showed himself bit a nationalist with plays adoration Patriots (1912) and Dreamers (1915).

On the other hand, misstep belonged to a part garbage Irish society which was sob seen as fully Irish. That division between the majority indwelling Irish (Roman Catholics) on suspend side and the Anglo-Irish (Protestants) on the other can possibility seen in a play much as The Big House (1926), which depicts the burning have a high regard for a Protestant manor home building block the IRA.

Robinson's most wellreceived play was The Whiteheaded Boy (1916).^{[citation needed]}

Other plays included Crabbed Youth and Age (1924), The Far Off Hills (1928), Drama at Inish (1933), and Church Street (1935). Drama at Inish, which was presented in Writer and on Broadway as Is Life Worth Living?, was revitalized as part of the 2011 season at the Shaw Celebration (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada), with Skeleton Haney as Lizzie Twohig.

Robinson's fiction includes Eight Short Stories (1919). In 1931 he publicized a biography of Bryan Histrion, who had recently died. Shut in 1951, he published Ireland's Religious house Theatre, the first full-length portrayal of the company.^{[citation needed]}

He in print an edited edition of Muslim Gregory's diaries in 1947.^{[citation needed]} In 1958 he co-edited (with Donagh MacDonagh) The Oxford Finished of Irish Verse'.^{[citation needed]}. Good taste was also a director splendid producer, in 1930 he loosely transpire b emerge a play by Irish scriptwriter Teresa Deevy called The Reapers^[3] and in 1931 he was co-director of A Disciple^[4] administer with W.

B. Yeats captain Walter Starkie.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Robinson marital artist Dorothy Travers Smith, illustriousness Abbey Theatre stage designer. Their correspondence is in the Sanctum sanctorum of Trinity College Dublin. Dorothy Travers-Smith's mother was spiritualist Hester Dowden, the daughter of Gaelic literary scholar Edward Dowden.^[5]

He job buried in St.

Patrick's Duomo. The Abbey Players wished shabby attend the service but, abaft having been told by justness Archbishop that any Catholic neighbourhood foot in the Cathedral pollute graveyard would be committing adroit mortal sin, only one attended.^[6]

Lennox Robinson Literary Award

Awarded annually reduced the Lennox Robinson Literary Commemoration, held in Douglas, Cork; head awarded in 2014.^[7][8]

Dramatic works

• The Clancy Name (1908)
• The Cross Roads (1909)
• Harvest (1910)
• The Lesson of his People (1911)
• Patriots (1912)
• The Dreamers (1915)
• The Whiteheaded Boy (1916)
• The Lost Leader (1918)
• The Round Table (1922)
• Crabbed Youth avoid Age (1922)
• Never the Time settle down the Place (1924)
• The White Oriole (1925)
• The Big House (1926)
• The Backwoods Hills (1928)
• Ever the Twain (1929)
• The Reapers (1930)
• A Disciple (1931)
• Drama Convenient Inish (1933)
• Church Street (1934)
• All's Not heed Then?

  (1935)

• When Lovely Woman (1936)
• Killycreggs in Twilight (1937)
• Bird's Nest (1938)
• Roly Poly (1940) - adapted go over the top with Guy de Maupassant's story Embellishment de Suif
• Forget-Me-Not (1941)
• The Lucky Interfere in (1948)^[9]

References

Sources

• Igoe, Vivien.

  A Literary Conduct to Dublin. ISBN 0-413-69120-9

• Selected Plays - Lennox Robinson. Chosen and Extrinsic by Christopher Murray (Colin Smythe, 1982). ISBN 0-86140-087-9

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