Abstract
This essay explores Yeats’s play The King of the Great Clock Tower focusing on the title role, the King of the Great Clock Tower. The play was first written in prose and then rewritten in verse. Furthermore, in another revision, the title of the play was changed to A Full Moon in March. where the character of the King disappeared. However, based on the premise that the deletion of the King in the later version does not deny all the functions of the King in the original version, this essay surveys major functions of the King. Above all, it is argued that the King functions as a defensive character opposed to an aggressive youth like the Old Man in At the Hawk’s Well and as a trigger to bring about the action of the play. This essay concludes that the King of the Great Clock Tower is an essential figure in The King of the Great Clock Tower compared with A Full Moon in March, though they were originated from the same material.
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