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Four Plays for Dancers

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In William Butler Yeats
…drama in such plays as Four Plays for Dancers (1921), At the Hawk’s Well (first performed 1916), and several others.
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In Irish literature: William Butler Yeats
…published together in 1921 as Four Plays for Dancers. In the first two—and in On Baile’s Strand (1904), The Green Helmet (1910), and The Death of Cuchulain (1939)—Yeats embodies his changing view of Ireland in Cuchulain (Cú Chulainn), the powerful but ultimately maimed hero of Ulster legend. Strongly influenced by…
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