Plays and Controversies

Plays and Controversies PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Plays and Controversies

Plays and Controversies PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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The Pot of Broth

The Pot of Broth PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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The Countess Cathleen

The Countess Cathleen PDF Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517314293
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Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan

Cathleen Ni Hoolihan PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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Category : Irish drama
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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The Countess Cathleen

The Countess Cathleen PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513275879
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 1911. Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order to save the starving Irish people. As dusk gathers, a family prepares for dinner in their rural home. The fire is lit, and Shemus, the father, has returned home from a day of hunting with nothing to show for it. As they scrounge what they can to make themselves a meal, the Countess Cathleen arrives to ask them for directions. Touched by their suffering, the Countess returns home and begins to wonder what she can do to alleviate their difficult circumstances. Impatient, Shemus yells to the darkening woods to welcome whatever being, angel or devil, that would bring them money or something to eat. When two merchants arrive offering him gold for his services, it appears that the Countess, despite her good intentions, may already be too late. The Countess Cathleen is a drama written in blank verse that explores themes of poverty, faith, and Irish independence. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Our Irish Theatre

Our Irish Theatre PDF Author: Lady Gregory
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats PDF Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521650895
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 967

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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. The Plays, edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations. Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same. In 1923, when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats suggested that "perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written no plays...if my lyric poetry had not a quality of speech practiced on the stage." Indeed, Yeats's great achievement in poetry should not be allowed to obscure his impressive and innovative accomplishments as a dramatist. In The Plays, David and Rosalind Clark have restored the plays to the final order in which Yeats planned for them to be published. This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from The Countess Cathleen to The Death of Cuchulain. The Plays enables readers to see clearly, for the first time, the ways in which Yeats's very different dramatic forms evolved over the course of his life, and to appreciate fully the importance of drama in the oeuvre of this greatest of modern poets.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama PDF Author: McGraw-Hill, inc
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9780070791695
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.

Collected Works in Verse and Prose

Collected Works in Verse and Prose PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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