Plays and Controversies

About this eBook

Author

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

Title

Plays and controversies

Original Publication

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.

Credits

Chris Hapka, Music transcribed by Jude Eylander and Linda Cantoni. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Abbey Theatre

Category

Text

eBook-No.

79460

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79460

Release Date

August 27, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PLAYS AND CONTROVERSIES — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
2. 2.SAMHAIN: 1901
3. 3.1902
4. 4.1903 — THE REFORM OF THE THEATRE — MORAL AND IMMORAL PLAYS — AN IRISH NATIONAL THEATRE — THE THEATRE, THE PULPIT, AND THE NEWSPAPERS
5. 5.1904 — THE DRAMATIC MOVEMENT — FIRST PRINCIPLES — THE PLAY, THE PLAYER, AND THE SCENE
6. 6.1905
7. 7.1906 — LITERATURE AND THE LIVING VOICE [11]
8. 8.THE ARROW: 1906 [14] — THE SEASON’S WORK — THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD — From Mr. Yeats’ opening Speech in the Debate on February 4, 1907, at the Abbey Theatre.
9. 9.1907 — ON TAKING THE PLAYBOY TO LONDON — A PEOPLE’S THEATRE [15]
10. 10.THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN — SCENE I — SCENE II — SCENE III — SCENE IV — SCENE V — NOTE
11. 11.THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE — PREFACE — NOTE
12. 12.FOUR PLAYS FOR DANCERS — PREFACE — AT THE HAWK’S WELL — THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER — THE DREAMING OF THE BONES — CALVARY — NOTES AND MUSIC — NOTE ON THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF ‘AT THE HAWK’S WELL’ — MUSIC FOR ‘AT THE HAWK’S WELL’ [18] — NOTE ON ‘THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER’ — MUSIC FOR ‘THE DREAMING OF THE BONES’ [19] — NOTE ON ‘THE DREAMING OF THE BONES’ — NOTE ON ‘CALVARY’

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