The following book is a collection of plays penned by Gordon Bottomley. He was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. A total of five plays are featured inside this book, which are: 'The Crier by Night', 'Midsummer Eve', 'Laodice and Danaë', 'The Riding to Lithend', and 'King Lear's Wife'.

Includes: KING LEAR'S WIFE; THE CRIER BY NIGHT; THE RIDING TO LITHEND; MIDSUMMER EVE; LAODICE AND DANAE; plus two appendices about KING LEAR'S WIFE and THE CRIER BY NIGHT. "We must honour the devoted writers who keep alive the desire for the poetic drama,

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.