Section One, Influence and Identity (1888 – 1895)

Explores the personal relationship of these two writers, their nationality and historical context as factors in influence.

Section Two, Mask and Image (1888 – 1917)

Traces the creative process leading to Yeats’s construction of the antithetical mask, and his ideas on image, in relation to the role of Wilde as his precursor.

Salomé: Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being (1891 – 1939)

Concentrates on the immense influence that Wilde’s symbolist play, Salomé, wrought on Yeats’s imaginative work and creative sensibility.