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Ireland as an imaginary place in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)

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From: West Virginia University Philological Papers
Date: 20060922
Author:Lapisardi, Frederick S.

With the exception of The Player Queen, The Resurrection, Calvary, and the two Oedipus adaptations, all of Yeats plays appear to take place in Ireland. In some cases, as with The Dreaming of the Bones where a true Yeatsian may actually trace each stop along the Young Man and two ghosts' journey up the hill to Corcomroe Abbey in County Clare, with three natural stops along the way, the real setting adds immeasurably to the meaning of the play. And certainly, Yeats's reworking of elements from Samuel Ferguson's poem Congal places the action of The Herne's Egg in Ireland. So do the ...

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