Irish Literary Theatre

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Irish Literary Theatre

…It is confirmed by documents that religious plays were performed in churches in the Middle Ages, but indigenous theater ceased for a long time after that, and only British touring theater companies performed popular works from London in Dublin. It can be said that theater in Ireland began with the establishment of the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899 with the cooperation of Yeats and Mrs. Gregory. The movement, which gathered comrades with the goal of seeking subject matter not from commercial or naturalistic theater in Britain or Europe, but from the myths, folk traditions, and social reality of the mother country, while excluding political partisanship and raising awareness of true national culture, developed into the Irish National Theatre Society in 1903, and in 1904, with the support of Miss Horniman, the Abbey Theatre, the base theater, was built in Dublin. …

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Japanese:

…中世に教会で演じられた宗教劇があったことは,文献的に確認されているが,その後久しく土着の演劇は途絶え,もっぱらイギリスの巡業劇団がロンドンの評判作をダブリンで上演するだけだった。1899年,イェーツとグレゴリー夫人の協力によるアイルランド文芸劇場Irish Literary Theatreの設立から,この国の演劇は始まると考えてよい。イギリスやヨーロッパの商業的あるいは自然主義的演劇の模倣ではなく,祖国の神話,民俗的伝統,また社会的現実に題材を求めること,ただし政治的党派性を排して,真の民族的文化の自覚を高めること――このような目標をかかげて同志を集めた運動は,1903年アイルランド国民劇場協会Irish National Theatre Societyへと発展し,04年にはホーニマン女史の援助でダブリンに拠点劇場アベー座が建てられた。…

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