| Collaborative One-Act Plays, 1901-1903 (Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the Pot of Broth, the Country of the Young, Heads or Harps): Manuscript Materials Contributor(s): Yeats, W. B. (Author), Gregory, Lady (Author), Pethica, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801441722 ISBN-13: 9780801441721 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $102.91 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.8 |
| LCCN: 2006049107 |
| Series: Cornell Yeats |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.9" W x 9.61" (1.43 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The four short works collected in this book were among the earliest plays to be authored collaboratively by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. Written in the pivotal years during which the Irish Literary Theatre experiment of 1899-1901 began to evolve into what would become the Abbey Theatre, they show both writers engaging with questions central to the early Irish dramatic movement: How should Irishness be represented on the stage? To what extent should artists engage directly with Nationalist politics? And what role might literature play in the creation of a new Ireland? The manuscripts presented here chart the evolution of two plays published over Yeats's name: Cathleen ni Houlihan--the pair's most successful collaboration, and the work that confirmed Yeats's credentials as a Nationalist writer--and the peasant farce The Pot of Broth. This book also includes manuscript material for The Country of the Young and Heads or Harps, which the writers left unpublished and unproduced during their lifetimes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gregory, Lady: - Wim Van Mierlo is a Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature at the University of London.Pethica, James: - James Pethica is editor of Last Poems: Manuscript Materials, also a volume in The Cornell Yeats.Yeats, W. B.: - The late Richard J. Finneran was Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Jared Curtis is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University. Ann Saddlemyer is Professor Emeritus of Drama at University of Toronto and adjunct Professor of English at the University of Victoria. |