Yeats on theatre

Author / Creator

Morash, Chris, 1963- author

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Online

Summary

"Prior to the spring of 1894, it would have appeared neither obvious nor inevitable to anyone following Yeats's published work that theatre would become so central to his life and to his thought. A...

"Prior to the spring of 1894, it would have appeared neither obvious nor inevitable to anyone following Yeats's published work that theatre would become so central to his life and to his thought. Anyone reading the young Yeats would have found him most concerned (apart from writing poetry) with forging a canon of Irish writing, engaging in various forms of cultural warfare or speaking out on the significance of folklore, with forays into magic and mysticism by no means anomalous for the time"--

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