The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays
by Lord Dunsany

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.