Research Catalog

Title

Selected plays / W.B. Yeats ; edited by Richard Allen Cave.

Author

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cave, Richard Allen.

Description

xlviii, 389 p. : ill.,; 20 cm.

Summary

"The simple, intimate staging of Yeats's late plays counterpointed by their formal ritual in verse, dance, music and masks creates dramas of extraordinary intensity. Repudiating naturalism, Yeats remains with Lorca, Cocteau and Pirandello among the profound innovators of the European theatre." "Richard Allen Cave provides a full introduction and a commentary on each play. His selection envisages the plays in performance, and groups them chronologically in order of initial composition to enable us to appreciate Yeats's remarkable development as a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Uniform Title

• Plays. Selections
• Penguin twentieth-century classics.

Alternative Title

Plays.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• English drama > 19th century
• Ireland > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The shadowy waters -- Cathleen ni Houlihan -- The hour-glass -- On Baile's strand -- 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 window-pane -- The king of the great clock tower -- The herne's egg -- Purgatory -- The death of Cuchulain.

ISBN

0140183744 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 36942932
• SCSB-11245844

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library