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The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts

Maurice Maeterlinck · tr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · 1909 · 32,263 words

Two children travel through the Land of Memory and the Kingdom of the Future seeking the bird of happiness, only to find it at home.

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Opening

Characters

TYLTYL: MYTYL LIGHT THE FAIRY BÉRYLUNE NEIGHBOUR BERLINGOT DADDY TYL MUMMY TYL GAFFER TYL (Dead) GRANNY TYL (Dead) TYLTYL'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Dead) TIME NIGHT NEIGHBOUR BERLINGOT'S LITTLE DAUGHTER TYLÔ, THE DOG TYLETTE, THE CAT BREAD SUGAR FIRE WATER MILK THE WOLF THE PIG THE OX THE COW THE BULL THE SHEEP THE COCK THE RABBIT THE HORSE THE ASS THE OAK THE ELM THE BEECH THE LIME-TREE THE FIR-TREE THE CYPRESS THE BIRCH THE CHESTNUT-TREE THE IVY THE POPLAR THE WILLOW STARS, SICKNESSES, SHADES, LUXURIES, HAPPINESSES, JOYS, ETC.

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Contents

  1. Characters
  2. Translator's Note
  3. Costumes
  4. Scenes
  5. Act I — The Wood-cutter's Cottage
  6. Act II, Scene 1 — At the Fairy's
  7. Act II, Scene 2 — The Land of Memory
  8. Act III, Scene 1 — The Palace of Night
  9. Act III, Scene 2 — The Forest
  10. Act IV, Scene 1 — Before the Curtain
  11. Act IV, Scene 2 — The Palace of Happiness
  12. Act V, Scene 1 — Before the Curtain
  13. Act V, Scene 2 — The Graveyard
  14. Act V, Scene 3 — The Kingdom of the Future
  15. Act VI, Scene 1 — The Leave-taking
  16. Act VI, Scene 2 — The Awakening

About this edition

Source: Project Gutenberg #8606

Public domain: First published 1909; public domain in the United States.

What’s included: Text of the revised edition with the translator's note of 1910, which adds the act first printed in that edition.

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