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The Plays of W. B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer

By Sylvia C. Ellis (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1999
ISBN
978-0-333-74878-7, 978-1-349-27224-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-27224-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (40148610 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 372\393
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
British and Irish Literature;Nineteenth-Century Li

Description

This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.

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