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The Plays of W.B. Yeats

Yeats and the Dancer

S Ellis author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:30th Nov '94

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This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.

ISBN: 9780333604984

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 651g

372 pages