The king's threshold
Subtitle: manuscript materials
By: by W.B. Yeats ; edited by Declan Kiely.
Contributors: Kiely, Declan.
Series: The Cornell Yeats
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca [N.Y ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Manuscripts; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939. -- Criticism, Textual; Poets -- Drama; Hunger strikes -- Drama; Kings and rulers -- Drama; Bards and bardism -- Drama; Ireland -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "The King's Threshold was first performed in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society in 1903 and first published in New York in 1904. The Cornell Yeats edition of this play about a bard's hunger strike includes the preliminary notes and first prose drafts dictated by Yeats to his patron and collaborator, Lady Gregory, in March and April 1903. As well as providing an outline of the play, these preliminary notes identify contemporary persons on whom some of the characters were based. Other features of this edition of The King's Threshold include Yeats's first blank verse drafts, heavily revised and corrected typescripts and galley proofs, and notes for the changes made between 1904 and 1906.

A major revision added a tragic ending to the version published in 1922, and this ending has remained in place ever since. Uniquely, this edition presents all four versions of the play, spanning thirty years of Yeats's efforts to perfect it."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.