Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Prefatory Note 7
3. Contents 21
4. The Countess Cathleen 23
5. The Land of Heart’s Desire 30
6. Cathleen Ni Houlihan 33
7. The Pot of Broth 36
8. The King’s Threshold 38
9. The Shadowy Waters (Acting Version) 43
10. Deirdre 45
11. At the Hawk’s Well 47
12. The Green Helmet / An Heroic Farce 49
13. On Baile’s Strand 52
14. The Only Jealousy of Emer 57
15. The Hour-Glass 59
16. The Unicorn from the Stars 64
17. The Player Queen 67
18. The Dreaming of the Bones 71
19. Calvary 74
20. The Cat and the Moon 75
21. Sophocles’ King Oedipus 77
22. Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 80
23. The Resurrection 83
24. The Words upon the Window-Pane 86
25. A Full Moon in March 89
26. The King of the Great Clock Tower 90
27. The Heme’s Egg 92
28. Purgatory 93
29. The Death of Cuchulain 95
30. Appendix I: Notes on Uncollected or Unpublished Drama 99
31. Appendix II: Note on First American Printing of Definitive Collected Plays 101