The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been lost. ... The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls twelve hours, the time allotted to the knight to tell his tale. ...
It was not until King Henry VIII (1509-1547) that the English interference took its toll on the Irish people. ... Frustration at the apparently unwillingness of the Irish to improve' as a result of the famine led an increasingly large portion of the English public to believe that the Irish were an irredeemably inferior race for whom no amount of tutoring would do any good. ...
Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, as such, the interior is "rather dim and poetic." There is a screen-like surface on which words or images periodically appear. ...
