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    The Dreaming of the Bones
    The Dreaming of the Bones
    The Dreaming of the Bones
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    The Dreaming of the Bones

    By W B Yeats

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    William Butler Yeats was born near Dublin in 1865, and 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. As a writer in nearly every genre but the novel, he was an instrumental figure in the "Irish Literary Revival" of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and received honorary degrees from Queen's University (Belfast), Trinity College (Dublin), and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. "The Dreaming of the Bones" was first published in 1919 and performed in 1931, it was one of the plays that comprised Yeats' "Four Plays for Dancers". Written in the Japanese Noh tradition, performed with masks, the play reflects on a belief that the dead may dream back.
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    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781420942262
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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 Dreaming of the Bones - W B Yeats

      THE DREAMING OF THE BONES

      BY W. B. YEATS

      A Digireads.com Book

      Digireads.com Publishing

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4162-3

      Ebook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4226-2

      This edition copyright © 2011

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      CONTENTS

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      THE DREAMING OF THE BONES

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      Three Musicians [their faces made up to resemble masks]

      A Young Man.

      A Stranger [wearing a mask]

      A Young Girl [wearing a mask]

      Time—1916.

      THE DREAMING OF THE BONES

      [The stage is any bare place in a room close to the wall. A screen, with a pattern of mountain and sky, can stand against the wall, or a curtain with a like pattern hang upon it, but the pattern must only symbolize or suggest. One musician enters and then two others; the first stands singing, as in preceding plays, while the others take their places. Then all three sit down

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