文档介绍：DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS
DEIRDRE OF THE
SORROWS
By J. M. SYNGE
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DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS
PERSONS IN THE PLAY
LAVARCHAM, Deirdre's nurse
OLD WOMAN, Lavarcham's servant
OWEN, Conchubor's attendant and spy
CONCHUBOR, High King of Ulster
FERGUS, Conchubor's friend
DEIRDRE
NAISI, Deirdre's lover
AINNLE, Naisi's brother
ARDAN, Naisi's brother
TWO SOLDIERS
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DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS
ACT I.
Lavarcham's house on Slieve Fuadh.
DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS ------ ACT I
Lavarcham's house on Slieve Fuadh. There is a door to inner room
on the left, and a door to open air on the right. Window at back and a
frame with a half-finished piece of tapestry. There are also a large press
and heavy oak chest near the back wall. The place is neat and clean but
bare. Lavarcham, woman of fifty, is working at tapestry frame. Old
es in from left. OLD WOMAN. She hasn'e yet, is it,
and it falling to the night? LAVARCHAM. She has not. . . (Con- cealing
her anxiety.) It's dark with the clouds ing from the west and
south, but it isn't later than mon. OLD WOMAN. It's later, surely,
and I hear tell the Sons of Usna, Naisi and his brothers, are above chasing
hares for two days or three, and the same awhile since when the moon was
full. LAVARCHAM -- more anxiously. -- The gods send they don't set
eyes on her -- (with
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a sign of helplessness) yet if they do itself, it wasn't my wish brought
them or could send them away. OLD WOMAN -- reprovingly. -- If it
wasn't, you'd do well to keep a check on her, and she turning a woman that
was meant to be a queen. LAVARCHAM. Who'd check her like was
meant to have her pleasure only, the way if there were no warnings told
about her you'd see ing when an old king is taking her, and
she without a thought but for her beauty and to be straying the hills. OLD
WOMAN. The gods help the lot of us. . . . Shouldn't she be well
pleased getting the like of Conchubor, and he middling settled in his years
itself? I don't know what he w