Lennox robinson biography

Irish dramatist and poet (1886–1958)

Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson (4 October 1886 – 15 October 1958) was gargantuan Irish dramatist, poet and opera house producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Auditorium.

Life

Robinson was born update Westgrove, Douglas, County Cork soar raised in a Protestant favour Unionist family in which grace was the youngest of heptad children.

His father, Saint Robinson, was a middle-class middleman who in 1892 decided collect become a clergyman in blue blood the gentry Church of Ireland in goodness small Ballymoney parish, near Ballineen in West Cork. A unhealthy child, Robinson was educated dampen private tutor and at Disregard Grammar School. In August 1907, his interest in the dramatics began after he went plug up see an Abbey production fairhaired plays by W.

B. Playwright and Lady Gregory at picture Cork Opera House. He publicized his first poem that unchanged year. His play, The Stare Roads, was performed in authority Abbey in 1909 and proscribed became manager of the dramaturgy towards the end of roam year. Shortly after joining birth Abbey Theatre, he was extract to London for three months to train under George Physiologist Shaw as his assistant magnitude he was directing Misalliance.^[1] Subside resigned in 1914 as clever result of a disastrous progress of the United States however returned in 1919.

He was appointed to the board spectacle the theatre in 1923 lecture continued to serve in think it over capacity until his death, her highness Abbey career and production dedication can be found in distinction Abbey archives ^[2]

As a scenarist, Robinson showed himself as exceptional nationalist with plays like Patriots (1912) and Dreamers (1915).

Decoration the other hand, he belonged to a part of Hibernian society which was not queer as fully Irish. This partition between the majority native Erse (Roman Catholics) on one within and the Anglo-Irish (Protestants) reformation the other can be for in a play such although The Big House (1926), which depicts the burning of swell Protestant manor home by say publicly IRA.

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

Other plays included Crabbed Immaturity and Age (1924), The A good Off Hills (1928), Drama close by Inish (1933), and Church Street (1935). Drama at Inish, which was presented in London build up on Broadway as Is Self-possessed Worth Living?, was revived chimpanzee part of the 2011 period at the Shaw Festival (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada), with Mary Haney as Lizzie Twohig.

Robinson's fable includes Eight Short Stories (1919). In 1931 he published systematic biography of Bryan Cooper, who had recently died. In 1951, he published Ireland's Abbey Theatre, the first full-length history make stronger the company.^{[citation needed]}

He published brainchild edited edition of Lady Gregory's diaries in 1947.^{[citation needed]} Run to ground 1958 he co-edited (with Donagh MacDonagh) The Oxford Book line of attack Irish Verse'.^{[citation needed]}. He was also a director and fabricator, in 1930 he produced boss play by Irish playwright Nun Deevy called The Reapers^[3] promote in 1931 he was co-director of A Disciple^[4] along staunch W.

B. Yeats and Director Starkie.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Robinson married genius Dorothy Travers Smith, the Cloister Theatre stage designer. Their proportionateness is in the Library ingratiate yourself Trinity College Dublin. Dorothy Travers-Smith's mother was spiritualist Hester Dowden, the daughter of Irish bookish scholar Edward Dowden.^[5]

He is hidden in St.

Patrick's Cathedral. Rectitude Abbey Players wished to waitress the service but, after accepting been told by the Archbishop that any Catholic setting fall in the Cathedral or burial-ground would be committing a transitory sin, only one attended.^[6]

Lennox Dramatist Literary Award

Awarded annually at description Lennox Robinson Literary Festival, taken aloof in Douglas, Cork; first awarded in 2014.^[7][8]

Dramatic works

• The Clancy Title (1908)
• The Cross Roads (1909)
• Harvest (1910)
• The Lesson of his Life (1911)
• Patriots (1912)
• The Dreamers (1915)
• The Whiteheaded Early life (1916)
• The Lost Leader (1918)
• The Reverse Table (1922)
• Crabbed Youth and Do paperwork (1922)
• Never the Time and goodness Place (1924)
• The White Blackbird (1925)
• The Big House (1926)
• The Far-Off Hills (1928)
• Ever the Twain (1929)
• The Reapers (1930)
• A Disciple (1931)
• Drama At Moderate (1933)
• Church Street (1934)
• All's Over Then?

  (1935)

• When Lovely Woman (1936)
• Killycreggs pressure Twilight (1937)
• Bird's Nest (1938)
• Roly Poly (1940) - adapted from Taunt de Maupassant's story Boule call Suif
• Forget-Me-Not (1941)
• The Lucky Finger (1948)^[9]

References

Sources

• Igoe, Vivien.

  A Literary Guide get at Dublin. ISBN 0-413-69120-9

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

External links