ofCassMcGuire. ... First, I look into a rare occasion in which Friel makes direct reference to Yeats’ text, in TheLoves ... by the fractured history of Ireland.
Brian Friel quotes Yeats's poetry extensively in his 1966 play, The Loves of Cass McGuire but it is the ... The article concludes that what was once the counter-tradition of Yeats is now the tradition of Irish ... the main ways Friel draws on Yeats to avoid 'the tawdry device of realism'.