Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind
Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats''s dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great literature and extaordinarily effective theater.
In his interpretation of the Cuchulain cycle the autho...
Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats''s dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great literature and extaordinarily effective theater.
In his interpretation of the Cuchulain cycle the autho...
