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Description:
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), world-famous fantasy writer, author of The Gods
of Pegana and The King of Elfland's Daughter , was in his own time
best-known as a playwright, associated with the Irish Renaissance, who began
writing for the Abbey Theater in Dublin in 1909 at the request of William
Butler Yeats. In 1915 he had five plays running on New York's Broadway
simultaneously. His comic fantasy If (1921) popularized the still
much-imitated motif of the character whose life takes an entirely different
path because he got to go back in time and catch the train he would have
otherwise missed. His collections Five Plays (1914) and Plays of Gods and
Men (1917) were library and school standards for many years.
The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays presents three of the rarest of Dunsany'
s plays, two of them never before published. The Ginger Cat is a brilliant
comedy, about a seemingly foolish man who takes only laughter seriously. The
Murderers is a crime melodrama with a surprising twist. Mr. Faithful is
another comedy, the uproarious adventures of a young man willing to
literally live a dog's life in order to marry the woman he loves.
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