The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand

A Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist and author, one of the founders of the Irish Literary Revival, William Butler Yeats is considered one of the twentieth century's key English language poets. A Symbolist poet, he had published during his life several volumes of plays and poetry, which are characterized dreamlike atmosphere, folk motifs and symbols.
"The King's Threshold" is a legendary drama, first performed in October, 1903. Founded on Old Irish Prose Romances, the play had the great success in it time and still remains nowadays.
We are glad to present you the drama, written by the recognized master of playwriting, who, according with T.S. Eliot's opinion, was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them. Enjoy the reading!