Copyright

All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

Caution: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that all of these plays are fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the Copyright Union, and are subject to a royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion-picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio-broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. For permission to produce any of these plays, address all inquiries to the author’s representative, Tom Erhardt, Casarotto Ramsey Ltd., National House, 60-66 Wardour Street, London W1V 311P, England.

Amateur Acting Rights

The amateur acting rights of the plays in this volume are controlled exclusively by The Dramatists Play Service Inc., 440 Park Ave. S., New York, N. Y. 10016, without whose permission in writing no amateur performances of them may be made.

Library of Congress Catalog card number: 50-20932

eISBN: 978-0-8112-2080-4

First published as ND Paperbook 217 in 1966

Published simultaneously in Canada by

Penguin Books Canada Limited.

New Directions books are published for James Laughlin

by New Directions Publishing Corporation,

80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011.