Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press.
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W. B. Yeats
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Standard Name: Yeats, W. B.
Used Form: William Butler Yeats
Used Form: Willie Yeats
WBY
, who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He was early involved in the Irish Literary Revival, and wrote early, highly romantic lyrics on Celtic and fairy themes. Later he made poetry out of the search for a poetic language. Some of his later work is affected by his interest in the occult.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Dora Sigerson | Yeats
, who had been a close friend of DS
's parents, deeply influenced her ideas about Celtic literature and culture and about Irish nationalism. Like him she supported and worked for Irish independence, both... |
| politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | During the last twenty years of her life, she became increasingly passionate about Irish politics and about her own Irish heritage. She closely followed news of the Easter Rising in Dublin, in 1916 and... |
| politics | Maud Gonne | Since [n]one of the parties in Ireland want women, MG
said, I have to work all by my lone, till I can form a woman's organization. First, with help from W. B. Yeats |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | John Bull's Other Island, a play about Ireland written by GBS
at the request of W. B. Yeats
, opened at the Court Theatre
in London. |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yeats
produced GBS
's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press. xxv |
| Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's work had its first professional performance when his one-act play In the Shadow of the Glen opened at Molesworth Hall in Dublin, put on by the Irish National Theatre Society
together with... |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | Cathleen Ni Houlihan, a one-act play co-authored by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was first performed by the Irish National Dramatic Company
at St Teresa's Hall, Dublin, with Maud Gonne
in the title role. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxxi, 534 Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 113 |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's popular comedy about village gossip, Spreading the News, was performed alongside Yeats
's On Baile's Strand and their co-written Cathleen Ni Houlihan for the opening of the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | A production of AG
's The Deliverer and Yeats
's The Hour-Glass at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was the first to use screens designed by Edward Gordon-Craig
. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. xi Innes, Christopher. Edward Gordon Craig. Cambridge University Press. 143, 221 |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Unicorn from the Stars, co-written by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
| Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's The Travelling Man, a miracle play co-written with W. B. Yeats
, was first produced at the Abbey
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. xi Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions. 75 |
| Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Working again through the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
lectured on Austen
, Eliot
, and Yeats
in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 283-4 |
| Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
invited FF
to act as stage manager for the Irish Literary Theatre
in Dublin for its production of The Countess Cathleen the following year. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 102 |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
and FF
gave a lecture on Poetry and the Living Voice at Clifford's Inn in Fleet Street: Yeats presented his theory of musical recitation, and then Farr illustrated by chanting a... |
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