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The words upon the window pane: A play in one act, with notes upon the play and its subject - Hardcover
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Words upon the Window Pane, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo-Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a séance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats to cloak a political message under personal character.
Quite probably based on an obscure one-act play called Swift and Stella by Charles Edward Lawrence, Lady Gregory's editor, the play is centered on a romantic triangle involving Jonathan Swift and two women, Vanessa and Stella. Yeats's use of a séance as a frame permits him to compare the present with the past by putting twentieth-century Dubliners side by side with Swift's contemporaries. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts of Words upon the Window Pane, with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing, publication, and performance.
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- PublisherIrish University Press
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0716513781
- ISBN 13 9780716513780
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages58
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Words Upon a Window Pane; A Play in One Act.
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T.M. MacGlinchery for Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1970
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 58pp. Or papered boards with tan cloth spine. Prev owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise excellent. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 043025
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The Words upon the window pane : a play in one act / with notes upon the play and its subject, by William Butler Yeats
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Dublin, Ireland : The Cuala Press, 1970
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Reprint. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 58 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Drama. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 in fiction, drama, poetry, etc.Spiritualism. Genre: Fiction. Drama. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 326606
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The Words upon the window pane : a play in one act / with notes upon the play and its subject, by William Butler Yeats
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Dublin, Ireland : The Cuala Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0716513781
ISBN 13: 9780716513780
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Reprint. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 58 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Drama. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 in fiction, drama, poetry, etc.Spiritualism. Genre: Fiction. Drama. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 326606
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The Words Upon the Window Pane: A Play in One Act, with Notes Upon the Play and Its Subject
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Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970
ISBN 10: 0716513781
ISBN 13: 9780716513780
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. An attractive facsimile copy of the original issue by the Cuala Press from 1934. This is a Near Fine copy; green-gray speckled paper-covered boards with a linen spine. Titled in black on the front cover. Clean text; 58 pages, the first 33 being the essay by Yeats. Light bumps to top corners, else Fine. The vellum dustwrapper is present; it has two small closed tears and a chip to the foot of the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 005564
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The Words Upon the Window Pane: A Play in One Act, With Notes Upon the Play and Its Subject, By William Butler Yeats
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Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970
ISBN 10: 0716513781
ISBN 13: 9780716513780
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. In the beautiful series reprinting the original of 1934, printed by Elizabeth Yeats at the Cuala Press in 1934. A Near Fine copy. Light green-gray paper-covered boards with a yellow linen spine; black lettering on the front cover. Clean text; 58 pages. Lacking a dustwrapper, there are a few extremely faint smudges on the covers, else Fine. In an archival plastic protector Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 002482
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