by William Butler Yeats · Abada Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419008534
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«Purgatorio: Obra en un acto» is the play by William Butler Yeats published by Abada Editores in paperback (72 pages, bilingual edition).
Written in 1938 and premiered that same year at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, it was the last play Yeats lived to see performed. Brief and minimalist, it combines symbolism with influences from Japanese Noh theatre and the absurd, and returns to his obsessions: desire, violence, guilt, redemption, family inheritance and uprootedness.
First edition published in Madrid in 2023, edited by Jordi Doce Chamberlan in the Voces collection; includes four illustrations.
For readers of poetry and theatre, especially of Yeats's final period and of the dialogue between his work and symbolism and the absurd.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
