Michael McAteer

Yeats and European Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

The plays of W. B. Yeats reflect both developments in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and also the author's ideas concerning labour, commerce and social alienation. Michael McAteer considers these works alongside those of the foremost dramatists of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 235
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781108798488
• ISBN-10: 1108798489
• Artikelnr.: 58564929

Autorenporträt

Michael McAteer is a lecturer at the School of English, Queen's University Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Introduction
Part I. Early Plays: 1. Revolutionary revelation: The Land of Heart's Desire, The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan
2. Space, language, power: The King's Threshold and Deirdre
Part II. The Cuchulain Cycle: 3. 'I'll Not Be Bound': On Baile's Strand and The Green Helmet
4. The turn to Noh: At the Hawk's Well and The Only Jealous of Emer
5. 'Everything Sublunary Must Change': The Death of Cuchulain
Part III. Later Plays: 6. 'The Heart of a Phantom is Beating': The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary
7. 'O Self-Born Mockers': The Player Queen, The Words Upon the Window-pane, The Herne's Egg
8. History inside out: Purgatory
Conclusion.