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The King of the Great Clock Tower" and "a Full Moon in March": Manuscript Materials(The Cornell Yeats)


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"It takes years to get my plays right." So Yeats informed Margot Ruddock on October 11, 1934, from Rome, where he had begun to redraft The King of the Great Clock Tower to give her a role to act. In June of that year Yeats had begun to rewrite his first prose version of the play before it had even been staged (it was performed most successfully at the Abbey Theatre from July 30 that summer). Two versions of The King of the Great Clock Tower (one in prose and one in verse) and a new play, A Full Moon in March, derived from the first, were to emerge from a period of gestation that had started early in November 1933. The composition of each play was fueled by Yeats's intense feeling for a woman. Both were performers: Ninette de Valois elected only to dance on stage and not to speak; Margot Ruddock was an actress possessed of a rich contralto voice who preferred not to dance (despite Yeats's most enduring description of her as his "sweet dancer"). Yeats devised strategies for each of his dance plays to meet these prescriptions. While admiration for de Valois's artistry helped to shape the first play, the second for Ruddock was the product of a deepening personal infatuation. The structure and content of the two plays and the differences between them reflect the wholly different emotions that stimulated their creation. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains manuscript materials for both the prose and verse renditions of The King of the Great Clock Tower and all of the drafts that resulted in A Full Moon in March. It also includes drafts of Yeats's prefaces and program notes for the plays, as well as staging information and cast photographs of the production of The King of the Great Clock Tower at the Abbey.

About the Author :

Richard Allen Cave is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.



Review :
"The most ambitious of the many important projects in current studies of Yeats and perhaps of modern poetry generally... The list of both general and series editors, as well as prospective preparers of individual volumes, reads like a Who's Who of Yeats textual studies in North America. Further, the project carries the blessing of Yeats's heirs and bespeaks an ongoing commitment from a major university press... The series will inevitably engender critical studies based on a more solid footing than those of any other modern poet... Its volumes will be consulted long after gyres of currently fashionable theory have run on."-Yeats Annual (reviewing The Cornell Yeats series)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801446115
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Manuscript Materials
  • Width: 168 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801446112
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Series Title: The Cornell Yeats
  • Weight: 907 gr


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