The author clarifies controversial events in William Butler Yeatss life, such as sudden heart troubles and depression from June 1925, his notorious Divorce Bill speech, the riots over OCaseys production of The Plough and the Stars and Yeatss obsession with Purgatory. His wife George was his amanuensis; this essay explains her motivation for altering details in his works and hoarding his papers after his death. She insisted that Yeatss alter egos and masks were psychic creations of a genius; this essay shows they were real disguises that George had to suppress in order to hide her own role in the murder of Yeatss extra-marital lover.
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