Name George Fitzmaurice Died 1963 | Role Dramatist | |
Books The Crows of Mephistopheles and Other Stories | ||
George Fitzmaurice (1877 – 1963) was an Irish dramatist and short story writer, some of whose plays were broadcast on Raidio Eireann.
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Life
George Fitzmaurice was born in County Kerry, Ireland. In 1907 he submitted The Country Dressmaker to the Abbey Theatre, where it played successfully, rescuing the theatre after the problems of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World in the same year.
In 1916 he enlisted in the British Army and returned to Dublin after the war with neurasthenia, rendering him fearful of crowds.
Plays
Similar to the plays of Synge, Fitzmaurice's plays are characterized by strong if not bitter realism mixed with outlandish modes of speech typical of the Irish people of that time.
Fiction
The Magic Glasses (1913)
References
George Fitzmaurice (writer) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA