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Title: Three Wonder Plays

Author: Lady I. A. Gregory

Release Date: January 4, 2005 [EBook #14588]

Language: English

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THREE WONDER PLAYS

By LADY GREGORY

Drama

Other works:

SEVEN SHORT PLAYS.
FOLK-HISTORY PLAYS. 2 VOLS.
NEW COMEDIES.
THE GOLDEN APPLE.
THE DRAGON.
OUR IRISH THEATRE. A CHAPTER OF
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
THE KILTARTAN MOLIERE.
THE IMAGE AND OTHER PLAYS.
THREE WONDER PLAYS.

Irish Folk-Lore and Legend

VISIONS AND BELIEFS. 2 VOLS.
CUCHULAIN OF MURITHEMNE.
GODS AND FIGHTING MEN.
SAINTS AND WONDERS.
POETS AND DREAMERS.
THE KILTARTAN POETRY BOOK.
THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK.

* * * * *

HUGH LANE'S LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENT
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DUBLIN
GALLERIES.

Three Wonder Plays

By

Lady Gregory

G.P. Putnam's Sons
London & New York

Note

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All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages.

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are reserved in the United States, Great Britain, and
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Performances are forbidden and right of presentation
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or reading them in public should be made to Samuel
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W.C.2.

_Made in Great Britain by_

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CONTENTS

THE DRAGON

ARISTOTLE'S BELLOWS

THE JESTER

THE DRAGON

ACT I

PERSONS

_The King_

_The Queen_.

_The Princess Nuala_.

_The Dall Glic_ (THE BLIND WISE MAN).

_The Nurse_.

_The Prince of the Marshes_.

_Manus, King of Sorcha_.

_Fintan, The Astrologer_.

_Taig_.

_Sibby_ (TAIG'S MOTHER).

_Gatekeeper_.

_Two Aunts of the Prince of the Marshes_.

_Foreign Men Bringing in Food_.

_The Dr