Yeats and Noh

Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called Noh (N?gaku) William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays constitute his noble theatre. They fall into two generations. Six plays belong to the first generation: At the Hawk's Well (1917) The only Jealousy of Emer (1919) The Dreaming of the Bones (1919) Calvary (1920) The Cat and the Moon (1926) a farce and Resurrection (1931). The second generation comprises four plays: A Full Moon in March (1935) The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935) Purgatory (1939) and The Death of Cuchulain (1939).