Project Gutenberg 2007-10-30 Public domain in the USA. 152 Strange, Michael 21007793 Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Reading ease score: 84.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Thierry Alberto, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Clair de Lune" by Michael Strange is a play written in the early 20th century. This two-act work immerses the audience in a fantastical court setting filled with intrigue, romantic entanglements, and the exploration of identity through its characters. The story centers around the Queen, the Duke's half-sister Josephine, and Gwymplane, a clown whose performance captivates but also complicates the lives of those he encounters. The opening of the play introduces a lush park where courtiers chatter about their lives and their Queen, highlighting the undercurrents of social dynamics and expectations. The Queen's desire for unique entertainment leads to the arrival of various mountebanks, including Gwymplane, who becomes entangled in the lives of the royal family. Themes of love, despair, and the search for purpose intertwine as the characters navigate their realities, setting the stage for conflicts and revelations that explore the duality of appearance versus true identity. As tension builds, the presence of both comedic and tragic elements foreshadows the complexity of love and societal norms that will unfold in the subsequent scenes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en American drama PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 214023 213702 2025-03-09T15:27:20.177521 2023-09-10T10:19:15.063428 text/html text/html 218700 2007-10-30T10:55:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 62243 2007-10-30T10:57:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 131036 2025-03-09T15:27:27.942425 application/epub+zip 133217 2025-03-09T15:27:22.327434 application/epub+zip 133217 2025-03-09T15:27:20.978477 application/epub+zip 257917 2025-03-09T15:27:31.233930 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 236100 2025-03-09T15:27:27.062439 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 221112 2022-09-11T04:40:13.100571 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 145047 144952 2025-03-09T15:27:18.763478 2023-09-10T10:19:13.897407 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 144854 2007-10-30T10:53:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 54094 2007-10-30T10:53:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 144861 2007-10-30T10:53:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54074 2007-10-30T10:53:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21283 2025-03-09T15:27:31.370906 application/rdf+xml 10469 2025-03-09T15:27:21.570446 image/jpeg 2907 2025-03-09T15:27:21.266479 image/jpeg 121042 2025-03-09T15:27:20.193458 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia