Author: Akhtar QamberPublisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Noh Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: Carol Ann BaysYeats and the Noh, with Two Plays for Dancers by Yeats and Two Noh Plays
Author: Akhtar QamberPublisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Yeats and Noh
Author: Jean-Paul G. POTETPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326459856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called "Noh (N'gaku)," William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays constitute his "noble theatre." They fall into two generations. Six plays belong to the first generation: At the Hawk's Well (1917), The only Jealousy of Emer (1919), The Dreaming of the Bones (1919), Calvary (1920), The Cat and the Moon (1926), a farce, and Resurrection (1931). The second generation comprises four plays: A Full Moon in March (1935), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935), Purgatory (1939), and The Death of Cuchulain (1939).
At the Hawk's Well
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420941555
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little regard for Christianity. His close friend, Ezra Pound, exposed Yeats to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama, prompting him to write "At the Hawk's Well" in 1916. The play, based on the Cuchulain legends of Irish mythology, uses Japanese-style masks and very simple sets to achieve an abstract, stylized form. The story is set by a dried up well on a barren mountainside, guarded constantly by a hawk-woman, and watched diligently by an old man who has waited fifty years to drink from its miraculous waters and the young Cuchulain who fails to heed the old man's warnings.
An Analysis of the Influence of the Classical Japanese Noh Theatre on the Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: Roberta Joyce HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nō
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Influence of the Noh Drama on William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, and Thornton Niver Wilder
Author: Martha NiemoellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nō (Japanese drama and theater)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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.
William Butler Yeats: Elements of the Noh ; Used, Discovered ; Re-used ; a Study of Yeat's Experiments with the Noh Theatre Before 1914
Author: William M. EloshwayThe Later Plays of W. B. Yeats and the Noh
Author: Joyce Johnson WhitfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan
Author: Ernest FenollosaPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201520
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.