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    Two plays for dancers
    Two plays for dancers
    Two plays for dancers
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    Two plays for dancers

    By W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Two plays for dancers - W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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      Title: Two plays for dancers

      Author: William Butler Yeats

      Release Date: August 2, 2010 [EBook #33321]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWO PLAYS FOR DANCERS ***

      Produced by Brian Foley and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

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      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      TWO PLAYS FOR DANCERS

      BY W. B. YEATS

      THE CUALA PRESS

      MCMXIX

      TWO PLAYS FOR DANCERS

      PREFACE

      In a note at the end of my last book 'The Wild Swans at Coole' (Cuala Press.) I explained why I preferred this kind of drama, and where I had found my models, and where and how my first play after this kind was performed, and when and how I would have it performed in the future. I can but refer the reader to the note or to the long introduction to 'Certain Noble Plays of Japan' (Cuala Press.)

      W. B. Yeats. October 11th. 1918

      P. S. That I might write 'The Dreaming of the Bones,' Mr. W. A. Henderson with great kindness wrote out for me all historical allusions to Dervorgilla.

      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 while the others take their places. Then all three sit down against the wall by their instruments, which are already there—a drum, a zither, and a flute. Or they unfold a cloth as in 'The Hawk's Well,' while the instruments are carried in.

      FIRST MUSICIAN

      (or all three musicians, singing)

      Why does my heart beat so?

      Did not a shadow pass?

      It passed but a moment ago.

      Who can have trod in the grass?

      What rogue is night-wandering?

      Have not old writers said

      That dizzy dreams can spring

      From the dry bones of the dead?

      And many a night it seems

      That all the valley fills

      With those fantastic dreams.

      They overflow the hills,

      So passionate is a shade,

      Like wine that fills to the top

      A grey-green cup of jade,

      Or maybe an agate cup.

      (speaking) The hour before dawn and the moon covered up.

      The little village of Abbey is covered up;

      The little narrow trodden way that runs

      From the white road to the Abbey of Corcomroe

      Is covered up; and all about the hills

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