Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Listen and read as much as you want
  • Over 400 000+ titles
  • Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Countess Cathleen

Series

1 of 62

Language
English
Format
Category

Lyric Poetry & Drama

The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 1911.

Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order to save the starving Irish people. As dusk gathers, a family prepares for dinner in their rural home. The fire is lit, and Shemus, the father, has returned home from a day of hunting with nothing to show for it. As they scrounge what they can to make themselves a meal, the Countess Cathleen arrives to ask them for directions. Touched by their suffering, the Countess returns home and begins to wonder what she can do to alleviate their difficult circumstances. Impatient, Shemus yells to the darkening woods to welcome whatever being, angel or devil, that would bring them money or something to eat. When two merchants arrive offering him gold for his services, it appears that the Countess, despite her good intentions, may already be too late. The Countess Cathleen is a drama written in blank verse that explores themes of poverty, faith, and Irish independence.

This edition of W.B. Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

© 2021 Mint Editions (Ebook): 9781513275871

Release date

Ebook: 1 February 2021

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
  2. Shakespeare Without a Life Margreta de Grazia
  3. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats
  4. Ulysses James Joyce
  5. The Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett George O'Brien
  6. London Journal James Boswell
  7. The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  8. The Flawed Good Man Sanskriti Singh
  9. Summer Magic T.M. Cromer
  10. The Tempest William Shakespeare
  11. The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen
  12. The St. Valentine’s Day Murder Peter Davis
  13. Falstaff: Give Me Life Harold Bloom
  14. George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Wixson
  15. The Burning Love - S01E01 Nitin Thorat
  16. James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction Colin MacCabe
  17. On Swift Horses Shannon Pufahl
  18. The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy Jan Kott
  19. The Addict S01E01 Mayuri Walke
  20. The Devoted Friend Oscar Wilde
  21. Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley
  22. Iago: The Strategies of Evil Harold Bloom
  23. Ivanhoe Walter Scott
  24. The Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain
  25. Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Michael Drout
  26. Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism Philip J. Stern
  27. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
  28. Green Hills of Africa Ernest Hemingway
  29. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Volume I Ernest Hemingway
  30. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World Jonathan Bate
  31. Sleep Tight: A DC Rose Gifford Thriller C S Green
  32. Metternich: Strategist and Visionary Wolfram Siemann
  33. A Room Of One's Own Virginia Woolf
  34. Amazing Grace Kim Nash
  35. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
  36. Christopher Marlowe - Hero And Leander Christopher Marlowe
  37. CinderGirl: My Journey Out of the Ashes to a Life of Hope Christina Meredith
  38. Season 13 Mark Redfield
  39. Three Short Stories E. T. A. Hoffmann
  40. Dan Dare - Prisoners of Space Colin Brake
  41. Captain Paul Alexandre Dumas
  42. When Amir Ali Spoke... S1E1 Vikrant Pande
  43. The History of Rasselas Samuel Johnson
  44. The Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe: "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." Edgar Allan Poe
  45. Dangerous Knight Elizabeth Johns