Yeats on theatre / Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morash, Chris, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Knowledge and learning.

Yeats, W. B.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Dramatic production.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Dramatic works.

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Theater--Ireland--Dublin--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: The Exact Moment

The Playwright As Thinker

The Fugitive Organum

Tragedy And Comedy

Form

Spaces And Objects

Bodies & Voices

Audiences

Conclusion: A Moment Of Intense Life.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-03302-6

1-009-03321-2

1-009-03150-3

OCLC:

1249713699