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Plays and Controversies

Plays and Controversies

Yeats, William Butler

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 1025909038
ISBN13: 9781025909035
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 506
Weight: 1.94
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Plays and Controversies offers a profound look into the creative and critical mind of W. B. Yeats, one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. This essential collection brings together several of Yeats's innovative dramatic works alongside a series of insightful essays and letters that trace the turbulent early years of the Irish dramatic movement.

The volume features plays such as the celebrated Four Plays for Dancers, which showcase Yeats's fascination with stylized, symbolic theater influenced by Japanese Noh drama. These works represent a significant departure from the realism of the era, emphasizing masks, ritual, and poetic intensity. Accompanying these plays are Yeats's Controversies-a series of prose pieces in which he defends his artistic vision and the mission of the Abbey Theatre against its critics. Through these writings, readers gain a firsthand perspective on the cultural and political tensions of the Irish Literary Revival.

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