Article: PLAY ON YEATS HAS `SPIRIT,' BUT LACKS SHAPE.(L.A. LIFE) (theater review)

Byline: Daryl H. Miller Daily News Theater Critic

In the new drama ``The Poet of Woburn Place,'' turn-of-the-century Irish poet William Butler Yeats is depicted as a man who longs for a placid, conventional life, complete with a wife and children. Trouble is, he can't convince the great love of his life - Maud Gonne MacBride, a fiery and beautiful Irish nationalist leader - to share his dream.

History records that Gonne MacBride inspired some of Yeats' most impassioned work. As presented here, she's an often-exasperating muse, turning cold and standoffish when Yeats talks of marriage - hoping he'll be content to think of his poems and plays as the ...

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