W B Yeats Selected Plays
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Pages: Good
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Few figures loom as large over the landscape of modern literature as William Butler Yeats, whose dramatic works fused the mystical traditions of Irish mythology with the bold formal innovations of the early twentieth century. W B Yeats Selected Plays, curated by the distinguished scholar A. Norman Jeffares, presents a carefully chosen collection of Yeats's theatrical masterpieces — from the haunting symbolism of At the Hawk's Well to the tragic grandeur of Purgatory — offering readers an authoritative window into the playwright's singular vision of theatre as ritual and revelation. Jeffares, one of the foremost Yeats scholars of his generation, brings meticulous editorial insight to this volume, situating each play within the rich biographical and cultural context of Irish literary nationalism and the Abbey Theatre movement. Yeats's dramatic writing, far removed from the drawing-room realism of his contemporaries, chronicles a world where the spiritual and the earthly are in constant, electric tension — where heroes, gods, and ghosts speak in verse of timeless longing. For those who believe they already know Yeats from his poetry alone, this collection issues a quietly irresistible challenge.
Author: W B Yeats (Edited By A Norman Jeffares)
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures loom as large over the landscape of modern literature as William Butler Yeats, whose dramatic works fused the mystical traditions of Irish mythology with the bold formal innovations of the early twentieth century. W B Yeats Selected Plays, curated by the distinguished scholar A. Norman Jeffares, presents a carefully chosen collection of Yeats's theatrical masterpieces — from the haunting symbolism of At the Hawk's Well to the tragic grandeur of Purgatory — offering readers an authoritative window into the playwright's singular vision of theatre as ritual and revelation. Jeffares, one of the foremost Yeats scholars of his generation, brings meticulous editorial insight to this volume, situating each play within the rich biographical and cultural context of Irish literary nationalism and the Abbey Theatre movement. Yeats's dramatic writing, far removed from the drawing-room realism of his contemporaries, chronicles a world where the spiritual and the earthly are in constant, electric tension — where heroes, gods, and ghosts speak in verse of timeless longing. For those who believe they already know Yeats from his poetry alone, this collection issues a quietly irresistible challenge.