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  • Conclusion - A Moment of Intense Life

  • Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book:
    Yeats on Theatre
    Published online:
    09 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 198-202

  • Summary

    For W. B. Yeats, the theatre was not the distraction that his critics have so often considered it to be, but the means through which he thought most intensely and originally.To understand his theatre is to understand it as a form of thought, much as Alain Badiou argues is possible with theatre in putting it forward as a reason why theatre persists.For Yeats, the understanding of embodied thought, of the relationship between self and other, and self and the possibility of being other, was worked out in performance.The result was not simply a body of dramatic writing, but a hitherto overlooked body of dramatic theory that locates thinking at the moment of intense experience.