The only jealousy of Emer
(2011)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2011
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781420942309 (electronic bk.) MWT11932893, 1420942301 (electronic bk.) 11932893
LANGUAGE
English
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Paula Bauersmith, Gerald E. McGonagill, John McLiam, Bonnie Bird, Florence Peters, Colleen Dewhurst, Betty Ellis, Jacquelyn Cooper, players ; Samuel Baron, flute ; Seymour Barab, cello ; Jane Batchelder, bass ; Mordecai Sheinkman, prepared piano ; Lou Harrison, celesta, conductor

In 1922 "The Jealousy of Emer" premiered in Amsterdam, and like many of Yeat's plays featured Japanese-style masks. The story is based on a legend from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology about Emer, the wife of the notorious soldier Cuchulain. The play picks up at the close of "On Baile's Strand," during Cuchulain's fight with the sea

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