id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 7s75db80s55 Katherine Anne Hennessey Memorable Barbarities and National Myths: Ancient Greek Tragedy and Irish Epic in Modern Irish Theatre 2008 .txt text/plain 344 11 33 Partially because of its long-standing claim to the title of Ireland's "National Theatre," the Abbey has been the subject of the preponderance of scholarly criticism about the history of Irish theatre, while the Gate has received comparatively scarce academic attention. I contend, however, that the history of the Abbey--and of modern Irish theatre as a whole--cannot be properly understood except in relation to the strikingly different aesthetics practiced at the Gate. cache/7s75db80s55.txt txt/7s75db80s55.txt