BL. W. B. Yeats

179. Flannery, James. W. B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre: The Early Abbey Theatre in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.

Includes a brief but perceptive account of Yeats’s adaptation of the nô, which concludes that the form helped him confront and dramatise ‘the power of the individual to will his own tragic fate’.