title: The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
author:  George Cusack 
description: George Cusack is an instructor in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. He is the editor, with Sarah Goss, of <em>Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon</em>.
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  The Plays  
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  **THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS**
  
  
  **VOLUME II**
  
  
  THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS
  
  
  Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, General Editors
  
  
  VOLUME I THE POEMS  
  ed. Richard J. Finneran
  
  
  VOLUME II THE PLAYS  
  ed. David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark
  
  
  VOLUME III AUTOBIOGRAPHIES  
  ed. William H. O’Donnell and Douglas Archibald
  
  
  VOLUME IV EARLY ESSAYS  
  ed. Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey
  
  
  VOLUME V LATER ESSAYS  
  ed. William H. O’Donnell
  
  
  VOLUME VI PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS  
  ed. William H. O’Donnell
  
  
  VOLUME VII LETTERS TO THE NEW ISLAND  
  ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer
  
  
  VOLUME VIII THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT  
  ed. Mary FitzGerald
  
  
  VOLUME IX EARLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS  
  ed. John P. Frayne
  
  
  VOLUME X LATER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS  
  ed. Colton Johnson
  
  
  VOLUME XI MYTHOLOGIES  
  ed. Warwick Gould, Michael Sidnell, and Deirdre Toomey
  
  
  VOLUME XII JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA  
  ed. Richar