false 303748 2 <I>The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays</I> is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes.<P><I>The Plays,</I> edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations.<P>Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the value of his plays and his poetry to be the same. In 1923, when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats suggested that "perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written no plays...if my lyric poetry had not a quality of speech practiced on the stage." Indeed, Yeats's great achievement in poetry should not be allowed to obscure his impressive and innovative accomplishments as a dramatist. <P>In <I>The Plays,</I> David and Rosalind Clark have restored the plays to the final order in which Yeats planned for them to be published. This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from <I>The Countess Cathleen</I> to <I>The Death of Cuchulain.<P>The Plays</I> enables readers to see clearly, for the first time, the ways in which Yeats's very different dramatic forms evolved over the course of his life, and to appreciate fully the importance of drama in the oeuvre of this greatest of modern poets.<P> 1174791 1953 The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. II: The Plays total:19|5:8|4:7|3:3|2:1| 19 79 26 0 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 07:03:21 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 07:03:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 06:30:42 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:30:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 11:13:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:13:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 19:39:47 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 19:39:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 08:35:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:35:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 18 18:38:30 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 18:38:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 04:12:02 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 04:12:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 10:16:26 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:22:07 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 13 07:28:38 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 07:28:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 07 19:00:34 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 19:00:34 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Mon Dec 08 11:10:36 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 30 09:10:21 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 11:10:36 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 29 07:46:09 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 07:46:09 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Aug 17 01:10:28 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 01:10:28 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jul 28 15:06:48 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 15:06:48 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jun 10 09:28:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 09:28:15 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat May 24 14:32:02 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 14:32:02 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Apr 05 13:39:23 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 13:39:23 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Mar 09 16:20:51 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 16:20:51 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Feb 02 12:44:39 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 12:44:39 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jan 12 23:34:36 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 23:34:36 -0800 2008