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The Plays

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Overview

Part of the book series: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (CWWBY)

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Keywords

  • 1917
  • 1922
  • dance
  • death
  • drama
  • music
  • play
  • prose
  • Sophocles
  • stars
  • William Butler Yeats

About this book

The Plays is the first ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honours the order in which the plays were written. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive notes and emendations from David R. Clark, one of the most respected scholars of Yeats drama today, and his fellow scholar and daughter Rosalind E. Clark.

About the author

DAVID R. CLARK is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is co-editor of Druid Craft: The Writing of the Shadowy Waters and W.B.Yeats: the Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus, and the series editor for the plays of Cornell Yeats.

ROSALIND E. CLARK is Associate Professor of English at St Mary's College, Indiana. She is the author of The Great Queens: Irish Goddesses from the Morrigan to Cathleen Ni Houlihan, and co-author, with David R. Clark, of W.B. Years and the Theatre of Desolate Reality, the expanded edition.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Plays

  • Authors: W. Yeats

  • Editors: D. Clark

  • Series Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-32539-1Due: 21 December 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 960

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