Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

The Mortal Gods, and Other Plays

SCENE: _A vast room in the palace of Hudibrand. As the curtain rises the place is in darkness save for a circlet of gold apparently suspended in mid-air near the centre of the room. As the light increases, the outline of a man's figure becomes distinguishable, and the circlet...

Chapters

1. ACT I

SCENE: _A vast room in the palace of Hudibrand. As the curtain rises the place is in darkness save for a circlet of gold apparently suspended in mid-air near the centre of the r...

8. ACT IV

SCENE: _On board a galley off Athens. An open door left of centre, rear, shows a moonlit sea. Cressets burning within. Pyrrha discovered, seated and fingering a dagger. A dimini...

4. ACT IV

_Second Off._ Made his terms! His officers are guardians of the State, And he--he's stallion of the court, submits To curb and comb that he may prouder prance And keep the herd...

2. ACT II

SCENE: _A grove in the outskirts of a town in Goldusan. Semi-tropical verdure. Rocks, shrubbery, trees, at convenience. A hidden cascade mumbles upper right, not loud enough to...

10. ACT I

SCENE: _A hall in the castle of Charilus on the heights of Kidmir. The open rear, through which is seen a sunset sky, leads to a parapet overlooking the city of Avesta and the c...

7. ACT III

_Pyrr._ The bare and brazen sun That's up without a cloud, cheers to the hunt, The fight, the bruited path,--makes careful dames Send linen to the ford, and say "Zeus grant, We'...

3. ACT III

SCENE: _A yard, walled and spiked, of Megario's hacienda. A long, low hut, the men's sleeping-quarters, at right. In upper centre, a smaller hut which serves for kitchen and als...

6. ACT II

_Pha._ [_Crossing_] I've come To walk with you. You like our garden, sir? We've bulbuls in it,--and wee, visiting wings From the unknown south. Can see them if you watch A place...

5. ACT I

SCENE: _Pelagon's garden, Athens. Wall, rear, shutting off street. Upper right, path to street gate. Upper and middle left, entrances to Pelagon's house. Lower left, path to a n...

9. ACT V

_Pel._ Ahem! The Spartan joy Is ever dumb. But see him stirred to heart That by a gift from out his very life, His dearest daughter, peace is home in Athens, And's forced no mor...

11. SCENE 1. _A hall in the castle of Suli. Heavy doors open left, half-way

up. Large window with iron grating, rear. Couches, chairs, scattered. Tables from which servants are removing the remnants of a feast. They are quarrelling, chaffing, singing, a...

13. ACT III

_Ard._ [_Looking back_] They do not follow. I am safe from that. [_Sits on a rock_] Why should I climb? There is no rest up there. But there is death, mayhap,--and that is worth...

14. ACT IV

_Mylitta._ No doubt. You'll cough In oracles. He'll puzzle o'er your sneeze That he may do its meaning. I have heard Such husbands do inhabit a green moon, And one may come to e...

12. SCENE 2. _The same. Gray of morning seen through grating of window,

_Ber._ You speak of dreams? A magic touched me, and I woke from dream Knowing my life. What ways we went! All things Seemed new, warm with the Maker's hand, as young As our own...