William Butler Yeats is associated with: The Second Coming
A man picks himself up off a barren landscape and begins to walk. An electronic soundtrack pulsates ominously. Unable to get a lift while hitchhiking, the man turns to the sky to bellow the eternal existential question, "What do you want me to do?" He answ ...
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In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel. ...
Watch NowThe ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also ...
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The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear ma ...
Watch NowYeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute. ...
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A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist. ...
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