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Type The Unicorn from the Stars

Name: The Unicorn from the Stars
Author: Lady Gregory

by Lady Gregory — type this classic chapter by chapter to build real WPM.

Drama

In a coachbuilder’s workshop in rural Ireland, a young man awakens from a trance. His uncle hopes he will finish the gilded coach he was building for the English authorities in Dublin Castle, but his visions lead him and the new followers he finds down a different path. Most ofYeats’plays were written as collaborations with his friend and patron, Isabella Augusta. Just how many of the plays attributed to Yeats were...

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CHAPTERS

Dramatis Personae

Father John Thomas Hearne, a coachbuilder Andrew Hearne, his brother Martin Hearne, his nephew Johnny Bacach, Paudeen, Biddy Lally, and Nanny, beggars...

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Act 1

Interior of a coachbuilder’s workshop. Parts of a gilded coach, among them an ornament representing a lion and unicorn. Thomas working at a wheel. Father John coming from door of inner room. Father Jo...

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Act 2

The same workshop. Martin seen arranging mugs and bread, etc., on a table. Father John comes in, knocking at open door as he comes; his mind intensely absorbed. Martin: Come in, come in, I have got th...

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Act 3

Before dawn. A wild rocky place, Nanny and Biddy Lally squatting by a fire. Rich stuffs, etc., strewn about. Paudeen watching by Martin, who is lying as if dead, a sack over him. Nanny: To Paudeen. We...

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