W. W. STRICKLAND
Three Trilogies
or
Nine Dramas in Prose and Verse
Each trilogy consists of a tragedy, comedy, and satyric drama. Most of the ideas occurred to the author during his travels in Italy and at Taormina in Sicily when that island was in full brigandage and the pastoral and forest beauties of Taormina had not been destroyed by the axe and the modern villa nor its charms by the modern tourists.
The plays, however, were composed during a period of roving life as conchologist in Australia, New Zealand and in Sicily itself. The “Shrieking Sisterhood” was written at Richmond in England and the first half of “Hinemoa” during a violent squall in a small steamer about 25 years ago between Nelson and Wellington, New Zealand.
The nine dramas are:
Orpheus and Eurydice The Glorified Thief
The Shrieking Sisterhood
Hinemoa Dido and Æneas Aphrodite
A Slight Misunderstanding
Gosling Gold St. Romauld’s Cell
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