In April 1902, she took a leading role in Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan.

* W. B. Yeats's play At the Hawk's Well is first performed.

* 2 April-First performance of W. B. Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan in Dublin.

The title of the book is a play on the last couplet of W. B. Yeats's poem " The Second Coming ": " And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The spirits notified George that they were ready to communicate by filling the Yeats's house with the scent of mint leaves.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

* Ethan James ' album What Rough Beast and its title track are based on Yeats's poem.

The focus of the Press was on publishing literary work by Irish authors, and Elizabeth and Lily Yeats's younger brother, the artist Jack Butler Yeats, did much of the illustration work.

Yeats's paintings usually bear poetic and evocative titles.

The poem is regularly praised as one of Yeats's masterpieces.

Working with two Irish brothers with theatrical experience, William and Frank Fay, Yeats's unpaid yet independently wealthy secretary Annie Horniman, and the leading West End actress Florence Farr, the group established the Irish National Theatre Society.

" From that year until 1916, the two men wintered in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as Yeats's secretary.

The relationship got off to a rocky start when Pound arranged for the publication in the magazine Poetry of some of Yeats's verse with Pound's own unauthorised alterations.

he wrote original music for 15 W. B. Yeats's plays for Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

Aengus appears in the Irish poet William Butler Yeats's poem, " The Song of Wandering Aengus ," which describes Aengus's endless search for his lover.

He was a voracious reader of literature and in this way he happened upon William Butler Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1902.

An even more complex example comes from Yeats's The Wanderings of Oisin.

He was killed while serving as a pilot during the First World War, an event that inspired Yeats's poems " An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ," " In Memory of Major Robert Gregory ," and " Shepherd and Goatherd.

However, William Wordsworth employed rhyme royal ( slightly modified by an alexandrine in the seventh line ) in " Resolution and Independence ", and notable twentieth-century poems in the stanza are W. H. Auden's Letter to Lord Byron ( as well as some of the stanzas in The Shield of Achilles ) and W. B. Yeats's A Bronze Head.

Most of Robert Frost's narrative and conversational poems are in blank verse ; so are other important poems like Wallace Stevens's " The Idea of Order at Key West " and " The Comedian as the Letter C ", W. B. Yeats's " The Second Coming ", W. H. Auden's " The Watershed " and John Betjeman's Summoned by Bells.

Thus, the play had its world premiere in Stockholm on February 2 1956, in Swedish ( as Lång dags färd mot natt ), in a production directed by Bengt Ekerot, with the cast of Lars Hanson ( James Tyrone ), Inga Tidblad ( Mary Tyrone ), Ulf Palme ( James Tyrone, Jr .), Jarl Kulle ( Edmund Tyrone ) and Catrin Westerlund ( Cathleen, the serving-maid or " second girl " as O ' Neill's script dubs her ).

The play was made into a 1962 film, starring Katharine Hepburn as Mary, Ralph Richardson as James, Jason Robards, Jr. as Jamie, Dean Stockwell as Edmund, and Jeanne Barr as Cathleen.

The play chosen was The Countess Cathleen by W. B. Yeats.

Lucas's most successful play was the thriller Land's End ( Westminster Theatre, Feb .- March 1938, 29 performances, with Cathleen Nesbitt, Cecil Trouncer and Alan Napier among the cast ) – " as full of drama as an egg is full of meat ", noted The Stage.

In 1932, her play was performed as " Children in Uniform " ( english adaptation by Barbara Burnham ) at the Duchess Theatre in London, England with Cathleen Nesbitt and Jessica Tandy in the cast

The words spoken by the woman in Makem's song are taken directly from " Cathleen ni Houlihan ", an early play by W. B. Yeats.

: For the play by Yeats and Gregory, see Cathleen Ní Houlihan

Scene From Yeats and Gregory's play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, circa 1912 production

As a literary figure, Kathleen Ni Houlihan was perhaps most famously used by William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in their play Cathleen Ní Houlihan.

In Yeats and Gregory's play, Kathleen Ni Houlihan tells the family her sad tale, interspersed with songs about famous Irish heroes that had given their life for her.

" The magistrate in Lady Gregory's play Spreading the News had formerly served in the islands.

He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British film Lady Jane, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

A popular 1911 comedic play by playwright Charles Nirdlinger, titled The First Lady in the Land, popularized the title further.

There she remained for eighteen years, being the first to play more than thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle ( 1777 ).

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

For a while, he was stage manager for Brady's daughter's play A Ruined Lady.

After he had turned down an offer to play Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, he found it easier to rebuff others, including a part in The Godfather Part II.

Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

1929's La Belle Marinière Beautiful Lady of the Canals a / k / a The Beautiful Bargewoman still has some of the excessively-poetic dialogue, but is overall a realistic play about a love triangle involving a bargeman, his wife and his best friend and companion.

Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known ; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.

Almost a year later, on 11 April 1896, the play received its Australian premiere at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney, with eminent local stage actress Jenny Watt-Tanner in the role of Lady Bracknell.

The play has been performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival five times beginning in 1975 with William Hutt playing " Lady Bracknell " in both the 1975 and 1976 productions and Brian Bedford in the 2009 production.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

Max Beerbohm called this play Wilde's " finest, most undeniably his own ", saying that in his other comedies — Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband — the plot, following the manner of Victorien Sardou, is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is " dissolved " into the form of the play.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

** The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.

) In Act I of Dumas's play The Lady of the Camellias, the characters attend a performance of the ballet Manon Lescaut.

Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.