Michel de Ghelderode

English version by Lionel Abel

Short Play, Drama

4 m

Int.

Set in a room in the palace of Spain that has a despairing sense of decay and total collapse of the kingdom and all it stands for, this play is provocative as well as devastating. The portrait is El Greco; the message is of a dark and ominous absurdity in the crystal realization of the clown's dying and king's sense that he is an end in himself and lucky in death to escape the hounds.

In The Modern Theatre: Vol. 5.