At the hawk's well : [for] flute, clarinet, harp, drum & gong [eBook - hoopla]

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At the hawk's well : [for] flute, clarinet, harp, drum & gong

(2011)

By: Itō, Yuji

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[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2011
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9781420942200 (electronic bk.) MWT11931781, 1420942204 (electronic bk.) 11931781

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English

NOTES

William Butler Yeats was prompted to write "At the Hawk's Well" in 1916, after his close friend, Ezra Pound, exposed him to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama. The play, based on the Cuchulain legends of Irish mythology, uses Japanese-style masks and very simple sets to achieve an abstract, stylized form. The story is set by a dried up well on a barren mountainside, guarded constantly by a hawk-woman, and watched diligently by an old man who has waited fifty years to drink from its miraculous waters and the young Cuchulain who fails to heed the old man's warnings

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