CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Irish Dramatic Movement

Samhain: 1901

Samhain: 1902

Samhain: 1903

Samhain: 1903—The Reform of the Theatre

Samhain: 1903—Moral and Immoral Plays

Samhain: 1903—An Irish National Theatre

Samhain: 1903—The Theatre, the Pulpit, and the Newspapers

Samhain: 1904—The Dramatic Movement

Samhain: 1904—First Principles

Samhain: 1904—The Play, the Player, and the Scene

Samhain: 1905

Samhain: 1906—Literature and the Living Voice

The Arrow: 20 October 1906—The Season’s Work

The Arrow: 23 February 1907—The Controversy Over The Playboy of the Western World

The Arrow: 1 June 1907—On Taking The Playboy to London

Samhain: 1908—First Principles

A People’s Theatre: A Letter to Lady Gregory

Prefaces and Note

[Preface] in The Collected Works in Verse and Prose (1908)

Preface to Plays and Controversies (1923)

Note in Mythologies (Edition de Luxe proofs, 1931–32)

Uncollected Contributions to Beltaine,Samhain,and The Arrow

Beltaine: May 1899—Plans and Methods

Beltaine: May 1899—The Theatre

Beltaine: February 1900—Plans and Methods

Beltaine: February 1900—Maeve, and certain Irish Beliefs

Beltaine: February 1900—[Note] to Alice Milligan’s The Last Feast of the Fianna

Beltaine: February 1900—The Irish Literary Theatre, 1900

Beltaine: April 1900—The Last Feast of the Fianna, Maeve, and The Bending of the Bough, in Dublin

Samhain: 1901—from Windlestraws

Samhain: 1901—[Note] to George Moore’s “The Irish Literary Theatre”

Samhain: 1902—from Notes

Samhain: 1902—[Note] to AE’s “The Dramatic Treatment of Heroic Literature”

Samhain: 1903—from Notes

Samhain: 1904—[Interpolations]

Samhain: 1904—Miss Horniman’s Offer of Theatre and the Society’s Acceptance

Samhain: 1904—from An Opinion

The Arrow: 20 October 1906—from The Season’s Work

The Arrow: 20 October 1906—A Note on The Mineral Workers

The Arrow: 20 October 1906—The Irish Peasant on Hyacinth Halvey

The Arrow: 20 October 1906—[Notes]

The Arrow: 24 November 1906—[Notes]

The Arrow: 24 November 1906—Deirdre

The Arrow: 24 November 1906—The Shadowy Waters

Samhain: 1906—Notes

The Arrow: 23 February 1907—from The Controversy Over The Playboy

The Arrow: 23 February 1907—from Mr. Yeats’ Opening Speech at the Debate of February 4th, at the Abbey Theatre

The Arrow: 1 June 1907—from [Notes]

Samhain: 1908—Events

Samhain: 1908—Alterations in Deirdre

Samhain: 1908—Dates and Places of the First Performance of Plays produced by the National Theatre Society and its Predecessors

The Arrow: 25 August 1909—The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: Statement by the Directors

The Arrow: 25 August 1909—from [Note]

The Arrow: 25 August 1909—The Religion of Blanco Posnet

Textual Matters and Notes

History of the Text

Textual Emendations and Corrections

Notes

Index