Born and educated in Dublin; Ireland; William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923; Yeats produced a vast collection of stories; songs; and poetry of Irelands historical and legendary past. These writings helped secure for Yeats recognition as a leading proponent of Irish nationalism and Irish cultural independence. His close friend; Ezra Pound; exposed the playwright to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama; prompting him to write a series of four plays in this style. The final play in this series; which were first printed together in "Four Plays for Dancers"; was "Calvary". With Ireland in the midst of a hunger-strike; the story of the self-sacrificing Christ was particularly relevant. In the story; Christ dreams of his passion; only to find that he is still rejected and is essentially alone; as so many heroic figures must find themselves.
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