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    The Only Jealousy of Emer
    The Only Jealousy of Emer
    The Only Jealousy of Emer
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    The Only Jealousy of Emer

    By W B Yeats

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    William Butler Yeats was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He felt an internal struggle with the contradictions he felt in his nature and in life, and spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve this conflict. In 1922 "The Jealousy of Emer" premiered in Amsterdam, and like many of Yeat's plays featured Japanese-style masks. The story is based on a legend from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology about Emer, the wife of the notorious soldier Cuchulain. The play picks up at the close of "On Baile's Strand", during Cuchulain's fight with the sea.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781420942309
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    W B Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

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      The Only Jealousy of Emer - W B Yeats

      THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER

      BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

      A Digireads.com Book

      Digireads.com Publishing

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4168-5

      Ebook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4230-9

      This edition copyright © 2011

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      CONTENTS

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      THREE MUSICIANS [their faces made up to resemble masks]

      THE GHOST OF CUCHULAIN [wearing a mask]

      THE FIGURE OF CUCHULAIN [wearing a mask]

      EMER } [masked, or their faces made

      EITHNE INGUBA }     up to resemble masks]

      WOMAN OF THE SIDHE [wearing a mask]

      THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER

      [Enter Musicians, who are dressed and made up as in At the Hawk's Well. They have the same musical instruments, which can either be already upon the stage or be brought in by the First Musician before he stands in the center with the cloth between his hands, or by a player when the cloth has been unfolded. The stage as before can be against the wall of any room, and the same

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