W. B. Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality: Including Vivien and Time, The Irish National Theatre and The Poet and the Actress Book

	List of Illustrations
	Foreword
	Preface. W. B. Yeats: A Dramatist First and Last
	Acknowledgments
	Acknowledgments in the First Edition
Pt. 1	The Young Yeats: Yeats's First Play
	"I've built a dreaming palace"	3
	Vivien and Time	23
	Themes, Images, and Form	49
	Yeats and the Arthurian Tradition	67
Pt. 2	Maturity: The Theatre of Desolate Reality
	The Abbey Dramatist
	"The struggle for intellectual or imaginative freedom"	105
	The Irish National Theatre	109
	The Drama of Passionate Perception	117
	The Counted Cathleen: Vision and Revision	126
	Deirdre: The Rigor of Logic	146
	The Mask Maker
	"That struggle of a dream with the world"	165
	The Poet and the Actress	170
	The Whirlwind of Lovers	186
	The Dreaming of the Bones and the Anti-Self of Circumstantial Realism	192
	The Later Yeats
	"Into the desolation of reality"	213
	The Words upon the Window-pane: A Realist Focus of Views and Voices	215
	Purgatory: The Achieved Language of Passionate Perception	240
	Conclusion	261
	Appendix: A Description of the Manuscripts	267
	Bibliography	273
	Indices	277
	Author-Title Index	277
	Titles by W. B. Yeats	282
	Subject Index	285