The complete online text of If: a play in four acts by Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

Lord Dunsany was an aristocrat, a soldier, a sportsman, an avid chess player, and an author. He wrote many things, both in terms of genre--poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays--and in quantity. Such a varied and prolific career was typical of many B...

The career of Lord Dunsany all too easily invokes the stereotype of the aristocratic literateur. By his own avowal, he was first of all a sportsman and a soldier; writing was an avocation. His plays, especially, reflect this approach, never quite losing...

Extraordinarily prolific in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, translation, autobiography, and memoir, including fifteen short-fiction collections and at least one hundred uncollected short stories, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth Ba...

Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich/Actos desafiantes: cuatro obras de Diana Raznovich. Ed. By DIANA TAYLOR and VICTORIA MARTINEZ. Trans. By VICTORIA MARTINEZ in collaboration with LYDIA RAMIREZ and NORA GLICKMAN. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2002. 342 pp. $43.50. ISBN 0-8387-5479-1. ...

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