Selected Plays

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  Paperback
  1991

  $5.61

  Yeats began his career by writting a series of plays in his teens, and finished his last play, The Death of Cuchulain shortly before his death at the age of 73. Yeats was a man of the theatre just as much as a lyric poet, managing Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre for many years. With an introduction and notes on each play, Professor Jeffares has selected a total of 12 plays which range from the patriotic Cathleen ni Hoolihan , the mixture of farce and symbolism in The Player Queen and the realistic The Words Upon the Window-Pane and the wild fantasy The Herne's Egg .