This book investigates Yeats' 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' drama, and his interest in the "dance-as-meaning" debate places him firmly not only in his time but also our own.
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'Yeats's passionate interest in the figure of the dancer has long fascinated his critics and admirers. Sylvia Ellis brings to the subject particular expertise as an historian of dance, and she takes us in new and unexpected directions. Her book is by far the most comprehensive treatment that we have.' - John Stokes, King's College, University of London 'Admirers of W. B. Yeats and especially his plays for dancers have long known of his interest in dance both as art-form and subject of fin-de-siecle aesthetic debate. But only with Dr Ellis has a scholar emerged willing to undertake the comprehensive research and sustained commitment to explore this intriguing topic fully.' - W. M. Tydeman, University of Wales, Bangor '...[an] admirable book... it is a clarifying approach to Yeats's plays which gives them theatrical integrity, with no apologetic deference either to his poems or to the naturalistic theatrical tradition. It is an unignorable introduction to Yeats's multi-medium drama.' - Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement
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Sylvia C. Ellis is in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Bangor.
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Before embarking on the principal concern of this chapter, an examination of versions of the legend of Salome which emerged after Heinrich Heine's publication of Atta Troll in 1841, reached a climax in the 1890s and continued, in a transformed manner, in the works of W.B. Yeats, echoing even in the last plays of 1935 and 1939, I shall first discuss the figure of the dancer as a concept of great significance to the movement of Symbolisme-Decadence and why she so captivated the fin-de-siecle consciousness of writers, painters and musicians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virgin cruelty, hawk woman, faery child, skirt dance, skirt dancing, dead lips, total art, fighting the waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Japanese Noh, Four Plays, Lady Gregory, The Land of Heart's Desire, Arthur Symons, Lame Beggar, John the Baptist, Ballets Russes, Ezra Pound, Hawk Woman, Isadora Duncan, Abbey Theatre, Atta Troll, Jane Avril, Gordon Craig, The Dreaming of the Bones, Ninette de Valois, The Only Jealousy of Emer, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Osman Edwards, The Death of Cuchulain, Charles Ricketts, Collected Poems New!
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Before embarking on the principal concern of this chapter, an examination of versions of the legend of Salome which emerged after Heinrich Heine's publication of Atta Troll in 1841, reached a climax in the 1890s and continued, in a transformed manner, in the works of W.B. Yeats, echoing even in the last plays of 1935 and 1939, I shall first discuss the figure of the dancer as a concept of great significance to the movement of Symbolisme-Decadence and why she so captivated the fin-de-siecle consciousness of writers, painters and musicians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virgin cruelty, hawk woman, faery child, skirt dance, skirt dancing, dead lips, total art, fighting the waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Japanese Noh, Four Plays, Lady Gregory, The Land of Heart's Desire, Arthur Symons, Lame Beggar, John the Baptist, Ballets Russes, Ezra Pound, Hawk Woman, Isadora Duncan, Abbey Theatre, Atta Troll, Jane Avril, Gordon Craig, The Dreaming of the Bones, Ninette de Valois, The Only Jealousy of Emer, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Osman Edwards, The Death of Cuchulain, Charles Ricketts, Collected Poems New!
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- Four Plays for Dancers (Collected Works of William Butler Yeats) by William Butler Yeats on 23 pages
- King of the Great Clock Tower by W. B. Yeats on 19 pages
- RC Literature and Literary Theory Bundle: Romantic Image (Routledge Classics) by Frank Kermode on 10 pages
- Where There Is Nothing (Collected Works of William Butler Yeats) by William Butler Yeats on 6 pages
- Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards on 5 pages
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