The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays | |
Author: | Lord Dunsany Darrell Schweitzer (editor) |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Fantasy plays |
Publisher: | Wildside Press |
Release Date: | 2005 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
Pages: | 125 pp. |
Isbn: | 0-8095-4478-4 |
Oclc: | 85853597 |
The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays is a collection of plays by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, edited and with an introduction by Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published, in hardcover and paperback, by Wildside Press in 2005.
The collection includes three of Dunsany's more obscure plays, only two of them previously acted and only one previously published. The contents in full are:
"The Ginger Cat" was known to exist but lost for decades, and was rediscovered by Dunsany's literary curator, Joe Doyle, while "Mr. Faithful" was known in theatrical circles and remained in print in an acting edition for many years. Schweitzer reproduced the first two plays from Dunsany's manuscripts, and the third from a photocopy of the acting edition.[1]
Schweitzer comments that "The Ginger Cat" and "Mr. Faithful" remain funny for modern audiences, and describes them as "between Wildean and Screwball comedy."