{"product_id":"the-words-upon-the-windowpane-manuscript-materials-9780801440472","title":"The Words Upon the Windowpane: Manuscript Materials","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): W. B. Yeats | Mary Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords upon the Window Pane\u003c\/i\u003e, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo-Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a s�ance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats to cloak a political message under personal character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuite probably based on an obscure one-act play called Swift and Stella by Charles Edward Lawrence, Lady Gregory's editor, the play is centered on a romantic triangle involving Jonathan Swift and two women, Vanessa and Stella. Yeats's use of a s�ance as a frame permits him to compare the present with the past by putting twentieth-century Dubliners side by side with Swift's contemporaries. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts of \u003ci\u003eWords upon the Window Pane\u003c\/i\u003e, with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing, publication, and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46895577366679,"sku":"9780801440472","price":13751.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801440472.webp?v=1770354741","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-words-upon-the-windowpane-manuscript-materials-9780801440472","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}