Robinson, ESL (English spelling)RobinsonESL

...This work, with its ruthless observations and caricatures, caused a reaction from the audience when it was first performed, but it contains the basic characteristics of Irish theater that followed. In the 1910s, realistic peasant dramas by Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) and others became mainstream, and in the 1920s, Sean O'Casey breathed new life into Irish theater with his tragicomedies of slum workers set against the backdrop of the anti-British and civil war era in his plays The Sniper's Shadow (premiered in 1923), Juneau and the Peacock (premiered in 1924), and The Plough and the Stars (premiered in 1926). Yeats continued to write symbolic legendary and allegorical plays incorporating the techniques of Japanese Noh, such as At the Hawk's Well (premiered in 1916), even after his middle period. He also published excellent collections of poetry, such as The Tower (1928) and The Spiral Staircase (1933), based on his experiences during the civil war and his theatrical activities, which won him worldwide fame, but at the core of his poetry are always Celtic myths and legends.

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…この作品は仮借ない観察と戯画のゆえに，初演当時は観衆の反感をかったが，その後のアイルランド演劇の基本的な性格を内蔵している。10年代に入るとロビンソンEsmé Stuart Lennox Robinson(1886‐1958)らの農民写実劇が主流をしめ，20年代にはショーン･オケーシーが《狙撃者の影》(1923初演)，《ジューノウと孔雀》(1924初演)，《鋤と星》(1926初演)において，対英抗争と内乱の時代を背景に，貧民街労働者たちの悲喜劇を描いて新たな活力を吹きこんだ。イェーツは中期以後も《鷹の井戸》(1916初演)など，日本の能の手法を取り入れた象徴的な伝説劇や寓意劇を書き続け，また演劇活動や内乱時代の体験をふまえて《塔》(1928)，《螺旋階段》(1933)など優れた詩集を発表して，世界的な名声を得たが，その中核にはつねにケルト族の神話･伝説が存在している。…

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