Download or read book The Cuchulain Plays of W B Yeats written by R Skene and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cuchulain Plays of W B Yeats a Study 1 Publ written by Reg Skene and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind written by Barton R. Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great literature and extaordinarily effective theater. In his interpretation of the Cuchulain cycle the author concentrates upon dramatic method. He examines first the evolution of Yeats's dramatic aesthetic and his attempts to translate it into practice. He then treats each play of the cycle in order of composition, moving from On Baile's Strand, of which the first version was begun in 1901, to The Death of Cuchulain completed in 1939. Deirdre is included, since it demonstrably belongs to the cycle. Professor Freidman discusses not only the plays in their final form but, in crucial instances, Yeats's revisions of them, which frequently illuminate his dramatic designs. In the cases of The Green Helmet and The Only Jealous of Emer, he considers as well as their alternative versions, The Golden Helmet and Fighting the Waves. The analysis draws on Yeats's poetry and his theories of history, mythology, and art, and it shows that Yeats succeeds where his Romantic precursors had failed, in finding ways of staging "the deeps of the mind." Barton R. Friedman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W B Yeats written by W. B. Yeats and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 1359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sword Against the Sea written by Arthur Feinsod and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sword Against the Sea" is an adaptation of William Butler Yeats' six one-act plays and some of his most stirring poems about the Celtic hero Cuchulain. Arranged in the chronological order of Cuchulain's life and drawing exclusively on Yeats' own magnificent poetry, this two-act play presents the hero's failed attempt as a young man to achieve eternal life at the Hawk's Well; his tragic slaying of his own son and the realization that drives him in despair to fight the sea; his wife Emer's noble sacrifice to save his life by renouncing her love; and Cuchulain's death and spiritual transcendence as an aged warrior. Like the original Yeats' Cuchulain plays themselves, this adaptation calls for collaborations among different kinds of artists in the creation of masks, the use of dance and the possibility of including instrumental and sung music. These Cuchulain plays and poems are compressed, simplified, and reshaped for a rich, uplifting evening of theater.
Download or read book Faces of the Ideal in the Cuchulain Plays of W B Yeats written by Brigit Mary Shea and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Butler Yeats written by Anthony Bradley and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1979 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to Yeats's folk plays, with each of the thirty plays given critical scrutiny which will be especially valuable to students encountering Yeats's plays for the first time.
Download or read book A Reader s Guide to the Plays of W B Yeats written by Richard H Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-02-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Plays for Dancers written by William Butler Yeats and published by Shannon : Irish University Press. This book was released on 1919 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reason for Yeats's fascination with dance became obvious to me when I understood his concept of theatre which was very different from the theatre of his day. He shunned naturalistic theatre - plays based on contemporary ideas and events prevalent in the work of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Yeats wanted his drama to by-pass the intellect, to excite the imagination rather than the mind. He believed that the world of events and ideas was transitory, passing, whereas the reality of the imagination was lasting. He wanted his theatre to communicate experiences which were outside the scope of reason, experiences which evoked the "intimacies, ecstasies and anguish of the soul-life." He wanted his theatre to create magic, to be a mystical happening which lured the audience to "the edge of trance." He wanted to create poems without words. Dance was the perfect solution. Through dance he could convey those "intuitive perceptions" that could be comprehended only through the pulses, "in that moment where everything is intelligible in one throb of the artery."
Download or read book The Collected Works of W B Yeats Vol II The Plays written by William Butler Yeats and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Selected Plays written by William Yeats and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18 plays are: The Shadowy Waters; Cathleen in Houlihan; The Hour Glass; On Baile's Strabd; The Green Helmet; Deirdre; At the Hawk's Well; The Dreaming of the Bones; The Cat and the Moon; The Only Jealousy of Emer; Calvary; Sophocles' King Oedipus; The Resurrection; The Words Upon the Windwo-FPane; The King of the Great Clock Tower; The herne's Egg; Purgatory; The Death of Cuchulain.
Download or read book Progress Identity in the Plays of W B Yeats 1892 1907 written by Barbara A. Suess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Platonism, and Victorian bourgeois ideologies claimed to be inescapable qualities of self. Progress and Identityn relocates Yeats's literary, social, and political relevance from his essentializing cultural nationalism to his later, more broad-minded definitions of progress.
Download or read book Yeat s Cuchulain written by Elizabeth Tuttle Edge and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain.
Download or read book At the Hawk s Well written by W. B. Yeats and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Collected Works of W B Yeats Vol II The Plays written by William Butler Yeats and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plays for an Irish Theatre written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
