Author: Liam MillerPublisher: Dublin : Dolmen Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN: 9780851053011
Category : Dublin. Abbey Theatre
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The Noble Drama of W. B. Yeats
Author: Liam MillerPublisher: Dublin : Dolmen Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
ISBN: 9780851053011
Category : Dublin. Abbey Theatre
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 967
Book Description
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 This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from The Countess Cathleen to The Death of Cuchulain.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.
The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W.B.Yeats
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349004413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1359
Book Description
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement 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. Edited by the distinguished Yeats scholars Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran, The Irish Dramatic Movement gathers together -- for the first time -- all of the poet's time-honored essays on drama and the groundbreaking movement that led to the enduring Irish theater of today. Although the reputation of W. B. Yeats as one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century rests primarily on his poetry, drama and the theatre were among his abiding concerns. Indeed, in 1917 he wrote, "I need a theatre; I believe myself to be a dramatist." Here in this volume is the collection of all his major dramatic criticism for the years 1899-1919, including previously uncollected material. A practicing dramatist himself, Yeats had strong convictions about the goals of the Irish theater and the appropriate plays to be produced. The essays in this collection address many topics, from the turbulent early years of what became the Abbey Theatre to the controversies over the plays of John Millington Synge and the relationship between drama and nationalism. Also evident are Yeats's judgments on numerous plays, playwrights, and productions, both in Irish and in English. FitzGerald and Finneran's volume includes an Introduction and a History of the Text, as well as copious but unobtrusive annotation. The Irish Dramatic Movement is an essential volume for both readers of Yeats and students of the early years of twentieth-century theater.
New Yeats Papers
Author: Liam MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Yeats papers
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Playsis 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.InThe 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, fromThe Countess CathleentoThe Death of Cuchulain.The Playsenables 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.
The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This work contains two celebrated plays by the famous Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, W.B. Yeats. "The King's Threshold" is about the nature of art and its place in the social hierarchy. "On Bailey's Strand" is an exciting comical retelling of a story featuring the Irish folk hero Cuchulain.
Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain.
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780743227988
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." The Yeats Reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life. Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius.
W. B. Yeats and the Creation of a Tragic Universe
Author: Maeve GoodPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349082465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description