On the Necessity of Criticising Criticism

In this opinion piece, Ann Saddlemyer explores the problems of the critic and theatre historian faced with incomplete evidence from the past and an increasingly unsatisfactory critical terminology for present day theatre, with particular reference to the work of women in Canadian theatre. Dans cet essai, Ann Saddlemyer fait l'exploration des problèmes qui existent dans le domaine de la critique et de l'histoire du théâtre. Les chercheurs/chercheuses doivent se débrouiller avec des documents du passé incomplets et une terminologie de moins en moins satisfaisante pour le théâtre d'aujourd'hui. Elle se réfère surtout à la participation des femmes au théâtre canadien

William Butler Yeats, George Antheil, Ezra Pound Friends and Music

William Butler Yeats was throughout his life determined to relate his words to music, and involved many writers and musicians in his search for the key. While in Rapallo staying near Ezra Pound, he met the young composer George Antheil, who became one of his converts. Others followed, with Yeats continuing to expound and clarify his ambition

Portrait of George Yeats

It was in the early 1960s that Derry Jeffares and I first met, over coffee at Bewley’s. The invitation came from him, who had heard of me from our mutual benefactor George Yeats. It cannot have been an easy encounter for either of us—a young scholar just embarking on my study of Synge’s manuscripts, I still felt an interloper in the field of Irish studies: a Dubliner by birth and a Trinity graduate, he moved about the city and through the minutiae of Yeatsiana with comfortable insouciance. It..