[PDF] A Critical Edition Of Diarmuid And Grania By William Butler Yeats And George Moore eBook

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780801443619

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The manuscript materials included in the Cornell Yeats edition of "Diarmuid and Grania" provide a full record of the disputes and revisions that culminated in the final draft of the play, which opened at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin on October 21, 1901.

Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781420941586

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William Butler Yeats was born near Dublin in 1865 and was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. His father's love of reading aloud exposed Yeats early on to William Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and the pre-Raphaelites, and developed an interest in Irish myths and folklore. One of Yeats' many plays based on Irish mythology is "Diarmuid and Grania," the story of two lovers who run away together before Grania's marriage to the celebrated warrior Finn MacCumhail. George Moore had written a novel based on a translation by Lady Gregory of "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne," one of the Fenian tales, and then later collaborated with Yeats on a play version. The legend is often seen as a forerunner to the Tristian and Iseult tales.

Author : David A. Ross
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1438126921

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Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1439105766

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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.