Collaborations Ninette de Valois and 
Wiliam Butler Yeats by Richard Allen Cave “They met in Cambridge in May 1927 in the foyer of the Festival Theatre; her major conquests lay before her; his career as poet, dramatist, theatre director and practitioner was at a peak.” This scholarly study looks at de Valois’ involvement with Yeats’ four dance plays at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre as performer and choreographer: 
Fighting the Waves, The Dreaming of the Bones, At the Hawk’s Well, The King of the Great Clock Tower. The author is Professor Emeritus in Drama and Theatre Arts at the 
University of 
London. 168 pages, 48 photographs, paperbound, 2011 ISBN 9781852731434