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Where There is Nothing (Hardcover)
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Where There is Nothing (Hardcover)
Series: Irish Dramatic Texts S., 3
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First published in 1903, Where There Is Nothing was never reprinted
in the author's lifetime. It lost its place in collected editions
of Yeats's plays to a new version, The Unicorn from the Stars, in
which Lady Gregory had a major share. There has long been a need
for an edition of Where There Is Nothing to restore to general view
an interesting play which, unusually for Yeats, has a modern
setting, a middle-class hero, and a predominantly naturalistic
technique. Yeats gave various reasons for abandoning the original
play. Perhaps one he did not mention was his doubt whether its open
and direct style and modem Irish background might not identify the
author too closely with the visionary central character, Paul
Ruttledge. Many of Yeats's deepest preoccupations are reflected in
Paul's pursuit of his apocalyptic vision: he abandons a life of
bourgeois comfort for hard freedom among the tinkers, follows a
religious life in a monastery, and finally dies a martyr at the
hands of a mob who cannot understand his ecstatic message: "Where
there is nothing, there is God." The drastically revised version,
The Unicorn from the Stars, changes the period and social milieu
and introduces new characters and plot complications which bear the
marks of Lady Gregory's distinctive style. Both plays are included
in this volume to allow comparison of the plays themselves and to
throw light on the characteristic methods of these two preeminent
playwrights.
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