The Plays of W.B. Yeats
Subtitle: Yeats and the Dancer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 30, 1994
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780333604984
Subjects: Dance; Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; (William Butler),; 1865-1939; Dramatic works; Knowledge; Yeats, W. B; English
First sentence: Before embarking on the principal concern of this chapter, an examination of versions of the legend of Salome which emerged after Heinrich Heine's publication of Atta Troll in 1841, reached a climax in the 1890s and continued, in a transformed manner, in the works of W.B. Yeats, echoing even in the last plays of 1935 and 1939, I shall first discuss the figure of the dancer as a concept of great significance to the movement of Symbolisme-Decadence and why she so captivated the fin-de-siecle consciousness of writers, painters and musicians.