The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. Yeats
Author | : R Skene |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781349022229 |
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Author | : R Skene |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781349022229 |
Author | : Reg Skene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Cuchulain (Legendary character) in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barton R. Friedman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0691656428 |
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.
Author | : Arthur Feinsod |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573701207 |
"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.
Author | : Brigit Mary Shea |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Cuchulain (Legendary character) in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard H Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1984-02-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349173673 |
Author | : Anthony Bradley |
Publisher | : Frederick Ungar |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | : Shannon : Irish University Press |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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."
Author | : William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 967 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1439105766 |
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.
Author | : William Yeats |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1997-04-24 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141962380 |
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.