Abstract
Although the early decades of the Abbey Theatre featured a repertoire noted for plays set in rural Ireland, Irish cities were also very much present on the nation al stage. From the original Abbey's opening in December 1904 to its demolition by fire in the summer of 1951, fifteen percent of the English-language plays to pre miere there were set in urban centers of the island. These include seven plays set in the city in Belfast, three in Cork, and one in Galway.1 No fewer than forty-three Abbey plays were set in Dublin.2 The plays that constitute the theaters's early
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