Yeats on Theatre
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- Author: Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin
- Date Published: July 2021
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316515389
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W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theatre as his main accomplishment. Yeats on Theatre restores Yeats not only a playwright, but as a writer and thinker who, over forty years, produced a body of theory covering all aspects of theatre, including the possibilities of performance space, the role of the audience and the nature of tragedy. When read as whole, in conjunction with his plays, letters, and extensive manuscript materials, Yeats's theatre writings emerge as a radical, cohesive, theatrical aesthetic, at odds with – and in advance of – the theatre of his time. Ultimately, the Yeats who takes shape in Yeats on Theatre is an artist who thinks through theatre, providing us with an urgently needed reassertion of the value of theatre as embodied thought.
Read more- Provides detailed chronological overviews of Yeats's writing for the theatre and his writing about the theatre
- Places Yeats's work in the context of modernist European figures such as Artaud, but also in the context of philosophical approaches to theatre
- Yeats produced a systematic body of theory on performance. This is the first time that has been put presented as such
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‘This is a magnificent book, profoundly researched and eloquently expressed, already a classic.’ Anthony Roche, Dublin Review of Books
See more reviews'This volume is a feat of scholarship that makes it unmissable for anyone in Irish and Theatre Studies, as well as Yeatsians.' Maria Rita Drumond Viana, Irish Studies Review
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- Date Published: July 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316515389
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The Playwright as Thinker
2. The Fugitive Organum
3. Tragedy and Comedy
4. Form
5. Spaces and Objects
6. Bodies and Voices
7. Audiences.
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