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The Noh Plays of William Butler Yeats: Accomplishment in Failure

This paper is a study of the effect of W. B. Yeats's contact with Japanese Noh drama on his work. The immediately discernible effect on his work can be seen, of course, in his adaptation of Noh dramatic form to his Four Plays for Dancers and The Death of Cuchulain. It is the thesis of this paper, then, that, despite many handicaps, Yeats's aesthetic background was not only sufficient to discover what suggestion did lie in the limited information available to him concerning Noh, but also sufficient for him to intuit much of what wasn't suggested.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc131355
Date05 1900
CreatorsBays, Carol Ann
ContributorsParks, Lloyd, Sampley, Arthur M. (Arthur McCullough), 1903-1975
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Format51 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Bays, Carol Ann

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