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Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: The Cuchulain Cycle of W.B. Yeats
By (Author) Barton R. Friedman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
21st May 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
822.8
Hardback
168
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great literature and extaordinarily effective theater. In