... MODERN DRAMA TO 1945 Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts, given a single performance in 1891, was famously described as 'an open sewer', because of its theme of hereditary syphilis. George Bernard Shaw, a champion of the Norwegian Ibsen, himself began to write plays on similarly controversial themes: MrsWarren's Profession is about ... were Irishmen who, for the most part, used English subjects for their plays, staged in London, but there was also a very strong movement for native Irish drama. Sean O'Casey's plays are set in the city rather than the country, but have a similar intention: to...

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