Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

· 1957

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME Paper, 1s. 6d.; Cloth, 2s. 6d. CARLYON SAHIB A Drama in Four Acts _The germ of this play sprang into existence on a certain April day in 1896 which you and I spent chiefly in dragging our reluctant bicycles up the great hills that surround Riveaulx Abbey, and discussing, so far as the blinding rain allowed us, the questions whether all sincere comedies are of necessity cynical, and how often we had had tea since the morning, and how far it would be possible to treat a historical subject loyally and unconventionally on a modern stage. Then we struck (as, I fear, is too often the fate of those who converse with me) on the subject of the lost plays…

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