{"product_id":"words-upon-the-windowpane","title":"Words Upon the Windowpane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords upon the Window Pane\u003c\/i\u003e, first staged in 1930, is W. B. Yeats's most powerful and brilliant dramatic exploration of the occult, in which he had a lifelong interest, and an affirmation of Anglo-Irish Protestant cultural ascendancy. Written at Lady Gregory's Coole Park estate, it features a séance in which Jonathan Swift's voice is projected through a medium. Like Yeats, Swift was both politician and poet, and taking Swift as his subject allowed Yeats to cloak a political message under personal character.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuite probably based on an obscure one-act play called Swift and Stella by Charles Edward Lawrence, Lady Gregory's editor, the play is centered on a romantic triangle involving Jonathan Swift and two women, Vanessa and Stella. Yeats's use of a séance as a frame permits him to compare the present with the past by putting twentieth-century Dubliners side by side with Swift's contemporaries. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains transcriptions and photographic reproductions of the drafts of \u003ci\u003eWords upon the Window Pane\u003c\/i\u003e, with variant readings from proofs, typescripts, and notebook entries, as well as other materials pertaining to its writing, publication, and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228892975448,"sku":"9780801440472","price":108.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801440472_e4ee9128-c4a5-4f71-ad34-137e03fc3f47.jpg?v=1779507950","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/words-upon-the-windowpane","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}