W.B. Yeats’s question ‘Did that play of mine send out/Certain men the English shot?’ from ‘The Man and the Echo’ (1938), speculatitively postions his play, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), as the driving force behind the Easter Rising of 1916. While theatre was a powerful factor in creating the cultural-politial climate which gave birth to the Rising, Yeats’s question disingenously gives his play an exclusive influence on events when other playwrights, specifically Patrick Pearse and Thomas MacDonagh, who actually led the Rising, had a far better claim to being its dramatic inspiration. This article considers the theatrical influences on the Rising, examining Cathleen ni Houlihan and other plays of the period, and outlines the production history of Yeats’s play as an indication of its post-Rising status, comparing it to that of Sean O’Casey’s play about the Rising, The Plough and the Stars (1926).

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“那是我的戏吗……？”：剧院，纪念活动和1916年

WB Yeats的问题“我的那场戏是否派出/某些人开枪了？” 摘自《人与回声》（The Man and Echo）（1938），他的戏剧Cathleen ni Houlihan（1902）成为1916年复活节崛起背后的推动力。戏剧是创造文化政治气候的有力因素，叶芝（Yeats）出生于瑞星（Rising），他的问题毫无疑问地赋予了他的戏剧以独特的影响力，而其他剧作家，尤其是实际上领导瑞星（Rising）的帕特里克·皮尔斯（Patrick Pearse）和托马斯·麦克唐纳（Thomas MacDonagh）则更能称其为戏剧性灵感。本文考虑了戏剧对《崛起》的影响，考察了Cathleen ni Houlihan和该时期的其他戏剧，并概述了叶芝戏剧的生产历史，以表明其后崛起状态，