On Baile's Strand: Manuscript Materials - The Cornell Yeats

On Baile's Strand, W. B. Yeats's first play based on the Cuchulain legend in the Ulster cycle of Irish myths, features themes of vengeance, free will and fate, personal and dynastic survival, love and loyalty, betrayal and trust, the nature of heroism, the horror of filicide, and the costs of remorse and madness. The mythic tale with which he...