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Words Upon the Window Pane is a 1994 Irish drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and starring Geraldine Chaplin, Ian Richardson, and Jim Sheridan. McGuckian directorial debut, it is based on William Butler Yeats' one-act play of the same name.
Words Upon the Window Pane: Directed by Mary McGuckian. With Geraldine Chaplin, Brid Brennan, Geraldine James, Hugh O'Conor. This film is based on the one-act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerges in a series of seances ...
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- Drama
- Mary McGuckian
- 1994-09
Dive deep into William Butler Yeats' The Words upon the Window-Pane with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
In The Words upon the Window-Pane, William Butler Yeats returns to a theme that dominates his poetry and plays: the mysterious layering of the past within the present, specifically as...
WORDS UPON THE WINDOW PANE. This film is based on the one act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two livers, Stella and Vanessa, emerges in a series of seances held in Dublin in 1928. Their passion, Swift’s torment and ultimately Stella’s revenge are enacted.
Thrown together by this crisis, the spiritualists are forced to confront uncomfortable truths in their own lives. The film, based on a play by W.B. Yeats, moves elegantly between the 18th and 20th centuries revealing that words have flesh and spirits have substance
Analysis and discussion of characters in William Butler Yeats' The Words upon the Window-Pane
