Five short plays show Dunsany’s gift for fable on stage. Beggars pretend to be the stone gods of a city in The Gods of the Mountain, a child’s scrawl threatens a kingdom in The Golden Doom, a slave king finds a buried sword, two dead burglars wait at the glittering gate of heaven, and a gentleman cannot retrieve his lost silk hat.
Brief, ironic and strange, these plays made Dunsany a favourite of the little-theatre movement. Download the free EPUB.