W.B. Yeats, Frank Fay, and the Art of Stage Management
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This paper will explore the influence of the brothers Frank Fay (1870-1931) and Willie Fay (1872-1947) on the development of Yeats’s drama. Frank and Willie Fay’s various amateur theater companies of the 1890s gave rise to the Irish National Theatre Society (1902), out of which grew the first Abbey Company. While the brothers’ role in founding the Abbey Theatre is uncontested, their reputation has depended on the narratives of literary and theatrical history written by others, often with their own agendas. Foremost among these is W.B. Yeats, who wrote in his speech to the Swedish Academy in 1923 of ‘our two best men actors … one a stage-struck solicitor’s clerk and the other a working man who had toured Ireland in a theatrical company managed by a Negro.’ (CW3 413). These patronizing words have had a disproportionate influence on subsequent critical evaluations of the Fays. This paper therefore hopes to reinstate the Fays within the literary milieu in Dublin, through scrutiny of the Abbey Theatre archive and Frank Fay’s own archive of letters and unpublished lectures.
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This paper will explore the influence of the brothers Frank Fay (1870-1931) and Willie Fay (1872-1947) on the development of Yeats’s drama. Frank and Willie Fay’s various amateur theater companies of the 1890s gave rise to the Irish National Theatre Society (1902), out of which grew the first Abbey Company. While the brothers’ role in founding the Abbey Theatre is uncontested, their reputation has depended on the narratives of literary and theatrical history written by others, often with their own agendas. Foremost among these is W.B. Yeats, who wrote in his speech to the Swedish Academy in 1923 of ‘our two best men actors … one a stage-struck solicitor’s clerk and the other a working man who had toured Ireland in a theatrical company managed by a Negro.’ (CW3 413). These patronizing words have had a disproportionate influence on subsequent critical evaluations of the Fays. This paper therefore hopes to reinstate the Fays within the literary milieu in Dublin, through scrutiny of the Abbey Theatre archive and Frank Fay’s own archive of letters and unpublished lectures.
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