Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett

<p>This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights - Wilde and Synge O'Casey and Beckett - who share in the achievement of creating a modern 'drama of the interior'. Professor Worth traces in particular the influence of Maeterlinck examining his 'static drama' in some detail. A dominant theme is the importance of total theatre techniques to the playwrights of the interior from Wilde in <i>Salomé</i> to O'Casey in plays like <i>Cock-a-Doodle Dandy</i>. Yeats is seen as the great pioneer assimilating inspiration from the French with Arthur Symons as guide from Synge from Gordon Craig and from the No drama and evolving a modern technique for a drama of complex self-consciousness.</p>