Seven Short Plays

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CONTENTS

SPREADING THE NEWS

HYACINTH HALVEY

THE RISING OF THE MOON

THE JACKDAW

THE WORKHOUSE WARD

THE TRAVELLING MAN

THE GAOL GATE

MUSIC FOR THE SONGS IN THE PLAYS

NOTES SPREADING THE NEWS

FIRST PRODUCTIONS OF THE PLAYS

A Selection from the Catalogue of G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

By Lady Gregory

Irish Folk-History Plays

First Series: The Tragedies

Grania. Kincora. Dervorgilla

Second Series: The Tragic Comedies

The Canavans. The White Cockade. The Deliverer

New Comedies

The Bogie Men. The Full Moon. Coats. Damer’s Gold. McDonough’s Wife

Our Irish Theatre

A Chapter of Autobiography

Seven Short Plays

Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate

The Golden Apple

A Kiltartan Play for Children


Seven Short Plays

By
Lady Gregory

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1916


Copyright, 1903, by LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY
Copyright, 1904, by LADY GREGORY
Copyright, 1905, by LADY GREGORY
Copyright, 1906, by LADY GREGORY
Copyright, 1909, by LADY GREGORY


These plays have been copyrighted and published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain.

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages.

All acting rights, both professional and amateur, are reserved in the United States, Great Britain, and all countries of the Copyright Union, by the author. Performances forbidden and right of presentation reserved.

Application for the right of performing these plays or reading them in public should be made to Samuel French, 28 West 38th St., New York City, or 26 South Hampton St., Strand, London.

Second Impression

The Knickerbocker Press, New York


DEDICATION

To you, W. B. YEATS, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
AUGUSTA GREGORY
Abbey Theatre,
    May 1, 1909.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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