Very Rare Yeats Publication Yeats (W.B.) 'Countess Cathleen...

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Very Rare Yeats Publication

Yeats (W.B.) 'Countess Cathleen'. Programme for a drawing-room performance at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, January 1899. 4 pp, single folded sheet, Dublin printed, with a note about the play, dramatis personae (with the Countess of Fingall as Countess Cathleen) and a list of tableaux. The first performance of scenes from the play, four months before the first full stage performance. Cover a little browned, traces of mounting to rear, otherwise v. good. "The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; The shadow of shadows on the deed alone." * Exceptionally Rare.