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PREFACE Ten people reporting any event, the sinking of the Lusitania or the Cuban Revolution, for example, will give ten different accounts of what happened, and why. Each has his own physical, mental, and emotional point of view. Each makes his own selection of facts for emphasis. Each interprets...

Some casual recollections of a talk with W. B. Yeats about a visit paid to Synge in Paris, before the Playboy and other plays were written, left me, I fear, with an exaggerated idea of Synge's debt to the French drama. Staying opposite the Odéon Theatre at the Hőtel Corneille, which became...