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If: A Play in Four Acts

by Lord Dunsany

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An early master of the genre of fantasy, the Irish aristocrat and writer Edward Plunkett (who wrote under the pseudonym "Lord Dunsany") achieved major literary acclaim during his lifetime. If is a full-length play that follows John Beal, an unremarkable Everyman figure, whose run-in with a mysterious Persian gives Beal the ability to travel in time.

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“Lord Dunsany è irlandese e con Synge e Lady Gregory collaborò all’ardita impresa, cui Yeats ha legato il suo nome, di dare all’Irlanda un teatro nazionale. Ma, mentre Synge, Lady Gregory e Yeats attingevano la materia dei loro drammi dal ricco tesoro delle leggende celtiche, e portavano sulle scene dell’Abbey Theatre di Dublino tutta l’Irlanda, l’Irlanda cattolica e superstiziosa, guerriera e faziosa, con i suoi santi, i suoi re, i suoi monaci, i suoi pastori, i suoi contadini, l’Irlanda della realtà e della leggenda, lord Dunsany preferiva crearsi un mondo tutto di sua esclusiva invenzione e fattura”.

Questo l’incipit della presentazione a Il cristallo magico sul numero 373 della rivista, che prosegue: – “Strano mondo, con strani paesi che nessun atlante ha mai segnato, abitato da strani popoli che nessuno ha mai sentito nominare, dominato da terribili deità di legno o di pietra dai barbari nomi, pervaso da un’umanità avventurosa e febbrile: naviganti, pirati, mendicanti, ladri, profeti, sacerdoti, sospinta da folli speranze, percossa da timori non meno folli, in preda alle potenze e ai capricci del soprannaturale”.
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An early master of the genre of fantasy, the Irish aristocrat and writer Edward Plunkett (who wrote under the pseudonym "Lord Dunsany") achieved major literary acclaim during his lifetime. If is a full-length play that follows John Beal, an unremarkable Everyman figure, whose run-in with a mysterious Persian gives Beal the ability to travel in time.

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