Product Description: Originally published in 1892, The Countess Cathleen aroused fierce controversy when it was first performed in 1899. The play was frequently revived and almost as often revised, becoming at various points in Yeats's career a decisive indicator of his relations with his literary and theatrical public, of his changing conception of dramatic form, and of the status of his pursuit of Maud Gonne, for whom the play was written...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Spanning all of Yeats's career, these critical essays are organised into three main parts: his concern with the speaking voice and its bearing on readings of his verse; his poetry in context with the work of other 'Georgians'; and the implications for his poetics of his spiritualist philosophy.

Product Description: This is the second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theater from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr...read more

A collection of Yeats' stories, this revised edition features an introduction which takes a fuller account of the Dublin edition of his work. While the basic texts are the same, selected inscriptions and memoranda to his work have been added, along with cover designs for the stories.

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Traces the history of an experimental English theater group and examines its attempts, during the thirties, to combine music, dance, and poetry

Product Description: This is a reissue of a much-admired variorum edition of Yeats's stories. 'This edition, which includes previously unpublished texts, gives a text history, which establishes once and for all the extent to which Yeats's work was modified by editors...read more

Product Description: Yeats, W. B. -- (William Butler), -- 1865-1939. -- Shadowy waters.