Both these plays have been written for Mr. Fay’s “Irish National Theatre.” “The King’s Threshold” was played in October, 1903, and “On Baile’s Strand” will be played in February or March, 1904. Both are founded on Old Irish Prose Romances, but I have borrowed some ideas for the arrangement of my subject in “The King’s Threshold” from “Sancan the Bard,” a play published by Mr. Edwin Ellis some ten years ago.
W. B. Y.
CONTENTS
THE KING’S THRESHOLD
LIST OF CHARACTERS
| King Guaire. | ||
| The Chamberlain of King Guaire. | ||
| A Soldier. | ||
| A Monk. | ||
| The Mayor of Kinvara. | ||
| A Cripple. | ||
| Another Cripple. | ||
| Aileen, | } | Ladies of the Court. |
| Essa, | ||
| Princess Buan. | ||
| Princess Finnhua, her Sister. | ||
| Fedelm, Seanchan’s Sweetheart. | ||
| Cian, | } | Servants of Seanchan. |
| Brian, | ||
| Senias, | } | Pupils of Seanchan. |
| Arias, | ||
| Seanchan (pronounced Shanahan), Chief Poet of Ireland. | ||
| Pupils, Courtiers. | ||
A PROLOGUE.[1]
An Old Man with a red dressing-gown, red slippers and red nightcap, holding a brass candlestick with a guttering candle in it, comes on from side of stage and goes in front of the dull green curtain.