Pierrot and Columbine banter over a black-and-white banquet until Cothurnus, the Masque of Tragedy, pushes them aside to rehearse a different scene. Two shepherds, Thyrsis and Corydon, build a wall of ribbons, quarrel over water and jewels, and destroy each other, after which the comedy resumes as though nothing happened.
Millay’s short anti-war play of 1919, a favourite of little theatres and drama classes. Download the free EPUB.