Critic Richard Cave
places this play alongside Kincora and Grania as representations of women whom tradition had vilified, bringing them from their marginalized status to the centre of attention to find grounds for investing them...
Literary responses
Augusta Gregory
Several recent critics (including McDiarmid
and Waters
, Richard Cave
, and Cathy Leeney
) read this play as a powerful feminist re-evaluation of the figure of Grania.
Textual Production
Augusta Gregory
AG
was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats
this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about.
qtd. in
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
544
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Texts
Cave, Richard. “Revaluations: Representations of Women in the Tragedies of Gregory and Yeats”. Irish University Review, Vol.