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    Rada: A Drama of War in One Act
    Rada: A Drama of War in One Act
    Rada: A Drama of War in One Act
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    Rada: A Drama of War in One Act

    By Alfred Noyes

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Rada - Alfred Noyes

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rada, by Alfred Noyes

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      Title: Rada A Drama of War in One Act

      Author: Alfred Noyes

      Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12220]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RADA ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Juliet Sutherland, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      RADA

      A DRAMA OF WAR IN ONE ACT

      BY ALFRED NOYES

      Author of The Wine Press, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern, Etc.

      1913

      PERSONS OF THE PLAY

      RADA, wife of the village doctor.

      SUBKA, her daughter, aged twelve.

      ARRAM } two hostile soldiers quartered

      MICHAEL } in her house, in time of war.

      NANKO, a half-witted schoolmaster.

      Several soldiers.

      THE SCENE is in the Balkans, in a village which has just been taken by the enemy, on Christmas Eve.

      RADA

      SCENE—_A guest-chamber, the typical living-room of a prosperous village doctor in the Balkans. On the left, a small window and an entrance door. On the right, a door leading into a bedroom. At the back, an open fire of logs is burning brightly. Over the fireplace is the eikonostasis, with three richly coloured and gilded eikons, the central one of the Madonna. The light, which is never allowed to go out, is burning before it. The room is lit at present only by this, the fire-light, and two candles in brass candlesticks on a black wooden table under the window. Rows of porcelain plates round the walls gleam fitfully. On either side of the eikonostasis is a large chibouk, with inlaid bowl and amber mouth-piece. There is a divan with scarlet rugs flung across it to the right of the fire; and there are several skins and rugs on the floor.

      Two Roumanian soldiers_, ARRAM_ and MICHAEL, are seated at the table, drinking.

      RADA,

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