Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Seven Short Plays

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Chapters

8. Part 8

_Mother:_ I will. I will set out the house to-day, and bring down the best delf, and put whatever thing is best on the table, because of the great thing that happened me seven y...

7. Part 7

_Nally:_ Milk of a Wednesday and a Friday, the potatoes steamed very good.... It's the skins of the potatoes they were telling me you do have to be eating in the gaol. It is wha...

5. Part 5

_Man:_ (_Takes off hat and wig. Sergeant seizes them._) I am. There's a hundred pounds on my head. There is a friend of mine below in a boat. He knows a safe place to bring me to.

6. Part 6

_Nestor:_ (_Calling after her._) I might as well be putting the jackdaw back into the cage to be ready for the journey. (_Comes into shop._) I hope now he will be well treated b...

3. Part 3

_Hyacinth:_ How would I be what they make me out to be? Was there ever any person of that sort since the world was a world, unless it might be Saint Antony of Padua looking down...

4. Part 4

_Mr. Quirke:_ If I had it now, I'd be proud to offer it to you, and make no charge. I'll be killing a good kid to-morrow. Mrs. Carden might fancy a bit of it----

1. Part 1

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2. Part 2

_Bartley:_ Maybe you don't hold with the clergy so? That is the teaching of the clergy. Maybe you hold with the old people. It is what they do be saying, that the shadow goes wa...

9. Part 9

But my grief your name to be blackened in the time of the blackening of the rushes! Your name never to rise up again in the growing time of the year! (_She ceases keening and tu...