Forgotten Plays: No 9 " The Words Upon the Window-Pane and Purgatory by WB Yeats by Michael Billington

A drama in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift haunts a seance and an astonishingly brief update of the Oresteia confirm the poet's remarkable skills as a playwright Few plays are more forgotten than those of WB Yeats. Revered as a poet, he's ignored as a dramatist yet he deserves to be remembered for a number of reasons. He cofounded the Abbey theatre in 1904, he put Irish legend and history on stage, and he sought t…

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