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Garcia Lorca en el teatro : la norma y la diferencia
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ISBN: 8460043843 Year: 1986 Publisher: Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza

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Marivaux à l'épreuve de la scène
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ISBN: 2859441050 9782859441050 Year: 1986 Volume: 12 Publisher: Paris


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Modern drama scholarship and criticism 1966-1980: an international bibliography
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ISBN: 0802025498 Year: 1986 Publisher: Toronto

Modern drama as crisis: the case of Maurice Maeterlinck
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ISBN: 0820402222 9780820402222 Year: 1986 Volume: 25 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Lang

W.B. Yeats
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ISBN: 1554587417 1282232665 9786613810403 0889207119 9780889207110 9780889201927 0889201927 1554585260 Year: 1986 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] . imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it created, or could create, part of the one history, and that the soul's.” He succeeded in developing a cohesive metaphysics, and one which is surprisingly original. While he set it down in a series of philosophical treatises culminating in A Vision, it is most clearly elaborated in his plays, which breathe life and meaning into the rather obscure statements of the treatises. In this book, the author traces “the history of the soul” as it is developed in Yeats's plays. She elucidates the underlying system of thought in the drama and establishes its importance to the aim and execution of the plays by drawing attention to a few of the central themes, metaphors, and symbols through which it is developed. The manuscript and the earliest published versions of the plays are indispensable to this study as they retain much of the abstract thought which Yeats eliminated from the later versions. Martin traces the development of the metaphors and images which gradually replaced Yeats's abstractions. In the process, she is able to uncover new meaning in the plays, as many subtle and obscure passages become clearly understandable.


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