I HAVE TO THANK the following for permission to include various
quotations: Messrs George Allen and Unwin Ltd. for those from
J. M. Synge's Plays and T. C. Murray's Maurice Harte; Messrs.
Ernest Benn Ltd. for those from Edward Martyn's Tale of a
Town; Messrs. Jonathan Cape Ltd. for those from Mr. Denis Gwynn
's Edward Martyn; Mr. Padraic Colum for those from his
play, The Land; Messrs. Constable & Co., Ltd., for a passage
from Kuno Meyer's Ancient Irish Poetry; Messrs. Duckworth
& Co., Ltd., for those from Edward Martyn's Maeve and The
Heather Field; Mr. Denis Gwynn for those from his book
Edward Martyn; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., for those from the
volumes Plays, Plays and Controversies, Autobiographies and Essays
in The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats; Mr. C. D. Medley for
those from George Moore's Hail and Farewell and The Bending
of the Bough; Messrs. Putnam & Co., Ltd., for those from the
works of the late Lady Gregory ( Cuchulain of Muirthemne,
Irish Folk History Plays, New Comedies, Seven Short Plays,
The Image, Three Wonder Plays, Three Last Plays) ; Mr. Lennox Robinson
for those from his play, The Clancy Name; the late
G. B. Shaw for a passage from the preface to his Three Plays
for Puritans; Miss Doris Arthur Jones for those from The
Foundations of a National Drama, by her father, the late Henry
Arthur Jones. I owe to many friends in Dublin the advantages
of discussion and debate on subjects relating to the Irish drama
and to the aesthetics of drama 'in general. Finally I would wish
to express my great gratitude to Mrs. W. B. Yeats for her
generous permission to use quotations from the works (men-
tioned above) of the late W. B. Yeats.

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