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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

  THE SECRET ROSE.
  THE CELTIC TWILIGHT.
  POEMS.
  THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS.
  THE SHADOWY WATERS.
  IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL.




PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE

VOLUME III.




  THE KING'S THRESHOLD:
  AND
  ON BAILE'S STRAND:

  BEING VOLUME THREE OF PLAYS
  FOR AN IRISH THEATRE:

  BY W. B. YEATS


  LONDON: A. H. BULLEN,
  47, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.
  1904

  CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
  TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.




NOTE


Both these plays have been written for Mr. Fay's "Irish National
Theatre." "The King's Threshold" was played in October, 1903, and "On
Baile's Strand" will be played in February or March, 1904. Both are
founded on Old Irish Prose Romances, but I have borrowed some ideas for
the arrangement of my subject in "The King's Threshold" from "Sancan the
Bard," a play published by Mr. Edwin Ellis some ten years ago.

                                                      W. B. Y.




CONTENTS


                               PAGE

  THE KING'S THRESHOLD            1

  ON BAILE'S STRAND              67




THE KING'S THRESHOLD




LIST OF CHARACTERS

  KING GUAIRE.
  THE CHAMBERLAIN OF KING GUAIRE.
  A Soldier