About the Author

SAUNDERS LEWIS is that rarity, the writer of the century. More than that, as far as Wales is concerned, in the absense of a native tradition, he has invented a dramatic literature for Welsh-speaking Wales so distinguished in its quality as to reside unself-consciously beside all others.The diversity of his range and his development in the theatrical craft is brilliantly and faithfully recreated for the English-speaking world here by Joseph Clancy. The 'audible rhythms and the music of speech' that 'are of necessity called-for in the theatre', are everywhere present - so that the translation though loyal in style, espression and allusion to the original are designed for actors in performance as well as for readers of the prinetd pages.