Five Plays
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Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy plays |
Publisher | Grant Richards (UK) Mitchell Kennerley (US) |
Publication date | 1914 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Preceded by | The Book of Wonder |
Followed by | Fifty-One Tales |
Five Plays is the eighth book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by Grant Richards in February 1914, and has been reprinted a number of times since.
The book is actually Dunsany's sixth major work, two of his preceding books having been chapbooks or selections from his other works.
In contrast to most of Dunsany's other early books, Five Plays is a collection of dramatic works, the first of several such collections. All of the included plays were performed many times.
Contents
- "The Gods of the Mountain"
- "The Golden Doom"
- "King Argimēnēs and the Unknown Warrior"
- "The Glittering Gate"
- "The Lost Silk Hat"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 4–5.
- Five Plays Archived 27 November 2001 at the Wayback Machine (zipped text at mindspring.com)
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collections
- The Gods of Pegāna
- Time and the Gods
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
- A Dreamer's Tales
- The Book of Wonder
- Fifty-One Tales
- The Last Book of Wonder
- Tales of Three Hemispheres
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- Jorkens Remembers Africa
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
- The Last Book of Jorkens
collections
- At the Edge of the World
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
- Time and the Gods
- The Collected Jorkens
- In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
- Five Plays
- The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays
- Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
- The King of Elfland's Daughter
- The Charwoman's Shadow
- The Curse of the Wise Woman
- Sidney Sime (preferred artist)
- John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (father)
- Reginald Drax (brother)
- Dunsany Castle
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (grandson and literary heir)
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