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Rewriting the Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose and Verse Versions

Rewriting the Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose and Verse Versions

Yeats
Yeats, William Butler
Chapman, Wayne K.

Hardcover

Series: Clemson University Press W/ Lup

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1942954166
ISBN13: 9781942954163
Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
Published: Jun 7 2016
Pages: 157
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Rewriting The Hour-Glass presents the complete prose text of Yeats's one-act morality play of 1903, the complete mixed poetry and prose text of 1913, and all variants between and after these as both states were maintained in his lifetime. As a breakthrough play for Yeats, The Hour-Glass was commended in his manifesto The Reform of the Theatre (1903) and became, with significant rewriting, his first play to employ masks, by analogy to the Renaissance-era court masque, prior to his own adaptation of Japanese form and Irish content in his plays for dancers. Like any critical edition, this book engages with and acknowledges all of the relevant texts, including Yeats's own corrected copies of the play. Consequently, the book unpacks and unwinds convolutions of the notoriously dual presentations of prose and verse versions in the Variorum Edition, reversing the procedure of the latter and permitting a more linear presentation of first and last states of the play, much to the benefit of students.

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