The Plays

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 OnlyJealousy 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 1938 The Death of Cuchulain 1939 PART TWO: ADDITIONAL PLAYS Diarmuid and Grania (1901) Where There Is Nothing (1902) Appendices: A: Yeats's Notes for the Unpublished Edition de Luxe and the Dublin Edition Notes to Appendix A B: Music for the Plays Notes to Appendix B Explanatory Notes Textual Notes