The King of the Great Clock Tower
King of the Great Clock Tower, The Author: W. B. Yeats
First Performance: 1934, Dublin
Published: 1938
Genre: Drama in 1 act; blank verse and 3- and 4-stressed lines
Setting: The King's palace, in the mythical past
Cast: 4m, 1f
The King of the Great Clock Tower complains yet again about the silence of the mysterious woman who came to him a year previously and whom he made his queen. A stroller comes to his court and demands to see the beautiful Queen, declaring that she will dance for him, that he will sing for her, and that she will kiss his mouth. Infuriated by his insolence, the King has the man beheaded. When the Captain of the Guard returns with the head, the Queen begins to sing and dance. The severed head sings too, the Queen kisses its lips, and the King is about to strike her down with his sword, when...
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