Yeats and European Drama

ISBN-13: 9781108798488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 235 str.

Michael McAteer

Opis

Examines how Yeats's plays reflected developments that occurred in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Recenzje

'It is a long time since there was a critical work on Yeats's theatre and even longer since there was one as impressive and intellectually commanding as Michael McAteer's Yeats and European Drama.' Anthony Roche, Irish University Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Early Plays: 1. Revolutionary revelation: The Land of Heart's Desire, The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan; 2. Space, language, power: The King's Threshold and Deirdre; Part II. The Cuchulain Cycle: 3. 'I'll Not Be Bound': On Baile's Strand and The Green Helmet; 4. The turn to Noh: At the Hawk's Well and The Only Jealous of Emer; 5. 'Everything Sublunary Must Change': The Death of Cuchulain; Part III. Later Plays: 6. 'The Heart of a Phantom is Beating': The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary; 7. 'O Self-Born Mockers': The Player Queen, The Words Upon the Window-pane, The Herne's Egg; 8. History inside out: Purgatory; Conclusion.