The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement

✍ Scribed by William Butler Yeats; Richard J. Finneran; Mary FitzGerald

• Publisher: Scribner;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 589 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0333325419

✦ Synopsis

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement 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.

Edited by the distinguished Yeats scholars Mary FitzGerald and Richard J. Finneran, The Irish Dramatic Movement gathers together -- for the first time -- all of the poet's time-honored essays on drama and the groundbreaking movement that led to the enduring Irish theater of today.

Although the reputation of W. B. Yeats as one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century rests primarily on his poetry, drama and the theatre were among his abiding concerns. Indeed, in 1917 he wrote, "I need a theatre; I believe myself to be a dramatist." Here in this volume is the collection of all his major dramatic...