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The purpose of this paper is to study W. B Yeats’s early play Deirdre as a Cuchulain play. The hero Naoise, who holds the championship of the Red Branch, dies, making way for the successor in the championship, Cuchulain. To clarify the relationship between Naoise and Cuchulain, the character of Naoise is closely examined. Such a study reveals several significant similarities between the life and death of Deirdre and Naoise and the unfolding of the careers of Cuchulain and Emer. Yeats altered his source material for his dramatic purpose. Yeats’s alterations are intended to contrast the world of protagonists with that of antagonist and he places much value on those qualities that he most admired: fidelity to love, honor and a refusal to indulge in crowd-pleasing, foredoomed heroics. By contrast, he makes the antagonist Conchubar the antihero of his Red Branch plays. Unlike the source, Yeats did not consider a violent death the only heroic answer to betrayal and entrapment. For this reason he changed the martial reaction of the source to one of calm acceptance when Naoise learns of Conchubar’s treachery. The reaction to deceit reveals that Naoise, like Cuchulain, is a semi- autobiographical hero who embodies many of his creator’s ideals. Thus Deirdre can be considered as one of the Cuchulain plays and Naoise and Deirdre as the prototypes of Chuchulain and Emer. Yeats created in 1907 a compressed, moving version of an old folk tale that deserves a place along with other early masterpieces.

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• 윤기호 [ Yun, Ki-ho | 충북대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810