Five Plays

A fine selection of Dunsany''s plays, including: ''The Gods of the Mountain, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and The Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, '' and ''The Lost Silk Hat.'' These plays are certainly old-fashioned, but are interesting trinkets nonetheless for the modern reader of Shakespeare, Tolkien, Lovecraft, etc. Their self-conscious old-worldliness more or less rules them out of a seriously approached modern-day staging, though a brave and skilled theater company might put ''The Glittering Gate'' or ''The Lost Silk Hat'' as a curtain show ahead of a Shakespeare or a Strindberg.