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Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Part One

An Introduction for My Plays 1937

The Countess Cathleen 1892

The Land of Heart's Desire 1894

Cathleen Ni Houlihan 1902

The Hour-Glass (prose) 1903

The Pot of Broth 1904

The King's Threshold 1904

On Baile's Strand 1904

Deirdre 1907

The Unicorn From The Stars 1908

The Green Helmet 1910

The Shadowy Waters 1911

The Hour-Glass (verse) 1914

Four Plays for Dancers 1921

At the Hawk's Well. 1917

The Dreaming of the Bones. 1919

The Only Jealousy of Emer. 1919

Calvary. 1920

The Player Queen 1922

Sophocles' King Oedipus 1928

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus 1934

Wheels and Butterflies (More Plays for Dancers) 1934

The Cat and the Moon. 1917

Fighting the Waves. 1930

The Words Upon the Window-Pane. 1930

The Resurrection. 1931

The King of the Great Clock Tower 1934

A Full Moon in March 1935

The Herne's Egg 1938

Purgatory 1939

The Death of Cuchulain 1939

Part Two: Additional Plays

Diarmuid and Grania [1901]

Where There Is Nothing [1902]

Appendixes
A. Yeats's Notes for the Unpublished Edition de Luxe and the Dublin Edition

Notes to Appendix A

B. Music for the Plays

Notes to Appendix B

Explanatory Notes

Textual Notes