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The King´s Threshold: Manuscript Materials
W. B. Yeats
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Description for The King´s Threshold: Manuscript Materials
Hardback. Editor(s): Kiely, Declan. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 688 pages, 194. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1270.
He has chosen death: Refusing to eat or drink, that he may bring Disgrace upon me; for there is a custom, An old and foolish custom, that if a man Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve Upon another's threshold till he die, The common people, for all time to come, Will raise a heavy cry against that threshold, Even though it be the King's. -from The King's Threshold The King's Threshold was first performed in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society in 1903 and first published in New York ... Read more
He has chosen death: Refusing to eat or drink, that he may bring Disgrace upon me; for there is a custom, An old and foolish custom, that if a man Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve Upon another's threshold till he die, The common people, for all time to come, Will raise a heavy cry against that threshold, Even though it be the King's. -from The King's Threshold The King's Threshold was first performed in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society in 1903 and first published in New York ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Cornell Yeats
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441042
SKU
V9780801441042
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About W. B. Yeats
Declan Kiely is Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head, Literary and Historical Manuscripts, at The Morgan Library and Museum. He is the editor of The King's Threshold : Manuscript Materials and coeditor of On Baile's Strand : Manuscript Materials, both in The Cornell Yeats. The late Richard J. Finneran was Professor of English ... Read more
Reviews for The King´s Threshold: Manuscript Materials
One can only commend Cornell University Press for taking on a project such as the Cornell Yeats series. . . . While this is very much an edition for the specialist, there is much valuable information for the general reader. -Irish Studies Review