Six country plays, among them The Lovers’ Tasks and Bushes and Briars, written in the speech of English villagers and peopled by farm hands, cottagers and shy suitors. An introduction praises the attempt to put the English countryman on the stage with the same seriousness given to Irish and Russian peasants, and the scenes bear it out with gifts of beans and cabbages and long silences.
An uncommon set of rural English dramas for readers who enjoy Hardy’s countryside or the Irish folk theatre of the same years. Download the free EPUB.