Two Plays for Dancers

by W. B. Yeats

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Two Plays for Dancers is by W. B. Yeats. The preface refers the reader to a note at the end of the writer's last book, The Wild Swans at Coole, and to the long introduction to Certain Noble Plays of Japan. A postscript says that, so the writer might write The Dreaming of the Bones, Mr. W. A. Henderson with great kindness wrote out all historical allusions to Dervorgilla.

A character labelled STRANGER asks a character labelled YOUNG MAN whether he has fought in Dublin, and YOUNG MAN says he was in the Post Office and, if taken, will be put against a wall and shot. A scene has EITHNE INGUBA remark how pale someone looks, and EMER say that he is not dead. A speaker tells of a man who, with shield before him and with sword in hand, fought the deathless sea, and who waded out until the water had swept over him.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865 to 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, a driving force of the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and is counted among the foremost figures of twentieth-century poetry.