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I. TANULMÁNYOK A TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYOK KÖRÉBÖL - Bertha Csilla: W. B. Yeats drámaírói útkeresése

YEATS'S EARLY EXPERIMENTS AS A PLAYWRIGHT Summary BERTHA CSILLA This study is a brief survey of the first part of Yeats's career as a playwright. After giving some introduction to Yeats's views on the drama and the theatre the author discusses his early plays, concentrating on a few greater achievements like The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand and The Green Helmet. The early plays try to dramatize such abstract or mystic desires and experiences as the quest for perfection, completeness, the meeting of the eartly and the transcendent worlds, and the confrontation of the superior heroic or poetic and the inferior ordinary ways of life. Such ideas could not be expressed in the traditional realistic-naturalistic formi of drama — wich Yeats abhorred anyway — so he experimented with mythic, ritualistic, symbolic and lyric means of expression. Though these plays cannot always realize his aims, with their numerous interesting technical-formal innovations they contribute to the renewal of the drama of the age and point the way towards later, more successful achievements. .311