Author: LORD DUNSANY (EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18TH BARON DUNSANY)
Title: Five Plays - The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, The Lost Silk Hat
Description: London, Grant Richards. 1920, Third Printing. Cloth. Book, 111 pages. Red cloth. Spine faded, some marks on covers, endpapers bit brown, internal hinge weak. At the end are notes of the first production of each play with cast; 2 at the Haymarket, London; 2 at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, one at the Gaiety, Manchester. The London casts include Claude Rains, later to star in The Invisible Man, Phantom of the Opera, Casablanca, etc. in what must be very early roles. The first four plays are fantastic and supernatural, also cynical; the last is a humourous sketch without fantasy elements. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Fantasy, Supernatural, Drama, Theatre, Ireland, Irish Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Horror Irish Interest


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