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The Land of Heart's Desire

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Characters
Influence
References
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{{italics title}}The Land of Heart's Desire is a play by Irish poet, dramatist, and 1923 Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. First performed in the spring of 1894, at the Avenue Theatre in London, where it ran for a little over six weeks,^[1] it was the first professional performance of one of Yeats' plays.^[2]

In this theatrical lament on age and thwarted aspirations, a faery child encounters the newlyweds Shawn and Mary Bruin at their home, shared with Maurteen Bruin and Bridget Bruin, Shawn's parents. The child, who at first is thought of by the Bruins as of gentle birth, denounces God and shocks Father Hart. She expounds on the ephemeral nature of life, in a bid to entice the newly-wed Maire to leave with her to the world of faery:

You shall go with me, newly-married bride,

And gaze upon a merrier multitude.

White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,

Feacra of the hurtling foam, and him

Who is the ruler of the Western Host,

Finvarra, and their Land of Heart's Desire,

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,

But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.

I kiss you and the world begins to fade.

Shawn implores the previously listless Maire to remain in the real world, but she dies in his arms, surrendering herself to the laughter and eternal, youthful dance of the otherworld, and to the seductive draw of immortality and mindless joy.

Characters

Maurteen Bruin
Shawn Bruin
Father Hart
Bridget Bruin
Maire Bruin
A Faery Child

Influence

The title of the album Like a Flame by Frederik Magle is derived from a quote from The Land of Heart's Desire.^[3]

References

1. ^Yeats, William Butler. 1903. [https://archive.org/details/landofheartsdesi00yeatuoft The Land of Heart's Desire].
2. ^Yeats Society Sligo. Drama..
3. ^Like a Flame (magle.dk). Retrieved on 4 May 2012

External links

[https://archive.org/details/landofheartsdesi00yeatuoft Full text of The Land of Heart's Desire] on the Internet Archive
Synopsis of The Land of Heart's Desire from Alice Fort and Herbert Kates, Minute History of the Drama, 1935, p. 117.
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2 : Plays by W. B. Yeats|1894 plays

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