Yeats’s Dreaming Back, "Purgatory", and Trauma
As few plays can compare with Yeats’s late play Purgatory with its probe into the tormented human psyche, this play can be viewed as a precursor to trauma plays we see later in modern Irish theatre. Yeats’s Purgatory not only deals with a subject of generational trauma accompanied by grinding guilt,...
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Firenze University Press
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/12891 |