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Author : James W. Flannery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835783677
Author : James W. Flannery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300046278
Author : Richard H Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349173679
Author : I. Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137001368
This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.
Author : David R. Clark,Rosalind Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015029087643
Originally published in 1965, the revised edition of this lucid study uses six plays to show the development of the great poet-dramatist and includes all of the original book plus new material and much previously unpublished work by Yeats himself. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gina Masucci MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131627981
The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major theatre figures of the twentieth century. Gina Masucci MacKenzie's work engages theatrical text and performance in dialogue with the Lacanian Real, so as to re-envision modern theatre as the cultural site where author, actor, and audience come into direct contact with personal and collective traumas. By showing how a transgressively free subject may be formed through theatrical experience, MacKenzie concludes that modern theatre can liberate the individual from the socially constructed self. The Theatre of the Real revises views of modern theatre by demonstrating how it can lead to a collaborative effort required for innovative theatrical work. By foregrounding Yeats's "dancer" plays, the author shows how these intimate pieces contribute to the historical development of musical as well as modern theatre. Beckett's universal dramas then pave the way for Sondheim's postmodern cacophonies of idea and spirit as they introduce comic abjection into modernism's tragic mode. This exciting work from a new author will leave readers with fresh insight to theatrical performance and its necessity in our lives.
Author : David A. Ross
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438126920
Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.
Author : Oliver Hennessey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476279
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism examines Yeats’s writing on Shakespeare in the context of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary Revival. While Shakespeare’s verse drama provides a source of inspiration for Yeats’s poetry and plays, Yeats also writes about Shakespeare in essays and articles promoting the ideals of the Revival, and on behalf of Irish literary nationalism. These prose pieces reveal Yeats thinking about Shakespeare’s art and times throughout his career, and taken together they offer a new perspective on the contours of Yeats’s cultural politics. This book identifies three stages of Yeats’s cultural nationalism, each of which appropriates England’s national poet in an idiosyncratic manner, while reflecting contemporary trends in Shakespeare reception. Thus Yeats’s fin-de-siécle Shakespeare is a symbolist poet and folk-artist whose pre-modern sensibility detaches him from contemporary English culture and aligns him with the inhabitants of Ireland’s rural margins. Next, in the opening decade of the twentieth century, following his visit to Stratford to see the Benson history cycle, Yeats’s work for the Irish National Theatre adopts an avant-garde, occultist stagecraft to develop an Irish dramatic repertoire capable of unifying its audience in a shared sense of nationhood. Yeats writes frequently about Shakespeare during this period, locating on the Elizabethan stage the kind of transformational emotional affect he sought to recover in the Abbey Theatre. Finally, as Ireland moves towards political independence, Yeats turns again to Shakespeare to register his disappointment with the social and cultural direction of the nascent Irish state. In each case, Yeats’s thinking about Shakespeare responds to the remarkable conflation of aesthetic and religious philosophies constituting his cultural nationalism, thus making a unique case of Shakespearean reception. Taken together, Yeats’s writings deracinate Shakespeare, and so contribute significantly to the process by which Shakespeare has come to be seen as a global artist, rather than a specifically English possession.
Author : S. Ellis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349272242
This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.
Author : Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815629958
This beautifully illustrated book traces W. B. Yeats's fascination with the visual arts from his early years, which were strongly influenced by his father's paintings and the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, to his celebration in his old age of Greek sculpture, Byzantine mosaics, and Michaelangelo's art.
Author : David Richman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874137187
"Drawing on Yeats's correspondence with fellow theater artists as well as on the myriad drafts of his plays, this book traces the conflict through which Yeats the playwright mastered and transmuted the traditional elements of drama, fusing them to create a body of wholly modern plays that still exert their influence upon contemporary playwrights."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : David Holdeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139457873
This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, his obsession with Ireland, and the modern era's loss of faith in traditional beliefs about art, religion, empire, social class, gender and sex. His works uniquely reflect the gradual transition from Victorian aestheticism to the modernism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. This is the first introductory study to consider his work in all genres in light of the latest biographies, new editions of his letters and manuscripts, and recent accounts by feminist and postcolonial critics. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the world of current Yeats scholarship as well as being provided with the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.
Author : Terence Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631182986
W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.
Author : Marjorie Howes,John Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494176
This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense. First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important trends in Yeats scholarship. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.
Author : George Mills Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036635071