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Abstract
Yeats has been widely criticized for his plays. He has been considered too isolated in his thinking and subject matter. Helen Vendler who gives a brilliant
analysis of his plays, concludes by saying they are written for a coterie theatre, remarking on ~he Death Of Cachulain that lithe play is no more compelling, dramatic-
ally speaking than the other late plays, which is to sey almost not at all. I agree with T.R. Henn that the
last plays must be read as dramatic poems. III This
In this materialistic age of mob mentality art is no longer of popular appeal. James Joyce’s novels, Samuel Beckett’s plays and the poetic utterance of most
1. Helen.H.Vendler, Yeats’s Vision i~d The Later Plays, op.cit., p.237.
literature; a trend which is encouraged by the mass media. Yeats’s contribution to modern drama is therefore not to be
en ”undramatic tendency that is more or less evident in all Yeats’s dramatic work •••• The plot counts for nothing
vital blend of action, thought and emotion that belongs to complete or complex humanity”l.