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W.B. Yeats and Ireland
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W.B. Yeats and Ireland
Examines the influences of Irish history, myth, culture and politics in the poet's plays, focusing on the character of Cuchulain.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages) |
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1993
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"The purpose of this research is to examine how the history and myth of Ireland, and the politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, affected the dramatic writing of W.B. Yeats. The plan of the research will be to set the dramatic output of Yeats in historical context, and then to discuss the role that the influences and people with whom he came in contact played in his life and particularly in his work, with special emphasis on the five Cuchulain plays and the character of Cuchulain.To appreciate the impact of the Irish myth on Yeats's plays, it is important to understand how Yeats came to the dramatic form and the depth of his commitment to his theory of drama, which Skene (222) summarizes as being "devoted to the attempt to reestablish ritual verse drama in the modern theatre, in the face ..."
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W.B. Yeats and Ireland (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-W-B-Yeats-and-Ireland/19964
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"W.B. Yeats and Ireland" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Research-Paper-W-B-Yeats-and-Ireland/19964>
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