W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and in Practice

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976 Book. As New. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xx, 404 pp, list of b&w illustrations, introduction, acknowledgments, I. Drama as a Dialectic of Opposites. II. Mysticism Tragedy, and the War of the Spiritual and Natural Order; III. Creating a Unity Through Ireland and Irish National Theatre; IV. A Dramatist in Search of a Theatrical Form; V. An Irish "Literary" Theatre; VI. Men of Letters and a Man of the theatre; VII. The Fays and the Early Abbey Theatre; VIII. Yeats and the Actor; IX. Yeats and the Abbey Theatre Company; X. Yeats and the Visual Arts of the Theatre; XI. Yeats the Dramatist; XII. Yeats the Theatre Manager and the Search for an Audience; XIII. The Legacy of Yeats; selected bibliography, index. First American Edition, 1976. "The Author analyses the development of Yeats's aesthetic of the theatre --- the continuing revision ad evolution of his dramatic work andtheory as a result of his practical experience in the theatre. He intended the Abbey to be the matrix of an indigenious national culture as was the communal theatre of the ancient Greeks. As such it provided a foucs for his own interests in revolutionary politics, folklore, mythology, and the occult." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon cloth with gilt devices and lettering to spine...