Abbey Theatre works by Seumas O'Cuisin, Fred Ryan and Yeats. The third base was the financial support and experience of Annie Horniman, a middle-class Englishwoman with previous experience of theatre production, having been involved in the presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" in London in 1894. An acquaintance of Yeats from London circles, including the Order of the Golden Dawn, she came to Dublin in 1903 to act as Yeats' unpaid secretary and to make costumes for a production of his play "The King's Threshold". Her money helped found the Abbey Theatre and, according to the critic Adrian Frazier,
Mary Shaw (actress) Mary Shaw (actress) Mary Shaw (1854–May 18, 1929) was an American suffragette, early feminist, playwright and actress. Shaw was involved in the women's movement since the early 1890s, and in 1892 she became a member of the Professional Women's League. She played many controversial roles in her career as an actress, and was involved in some of the most controversial plays of her time such as Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" and "Hedda Gabler", George Bernard Shaw's (no relation) "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and many female suffrage plays. Shaw, along with actress Jessie Bonstelle, designed the Woman's National Theatre in the early twentieth