Plays For an Irish Theatre.

YEATS, William Butler [W.B.].

Item Number: 108908

London & Stratford-Upon-Avon: A.H. Bullen, 1911.

First edition of this collection of Yeats’ plays written for the Irish stage. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth with paper spine label, all edges uncut, ribbon bound in. Illustrated with four tissue-guarded designs by Gordon Craig. Preface and notes by Yeats. In very good condition.

One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, William Butler Years was a pillar of the Irish literary establishment and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. Yeats' earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and, in 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Plays For an Irish Theatre contains Deirdre, The Green Helmut, On Baile's Strand, The King's Threshold, The Shadowy Waters, The Hour-Glass, and Cathleen Ni Houlihan.