William Butler Yeats

Nacimiento : 1865-06-13, Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

Muerte : 1939-01-28

PelĂ­culas

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Himself (archive footage)
A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.
Deirdre
Writer
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also a personal statement about love, death, and the making of art. Goodreads
Oedipus Rex
Writer
The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.