The Blue Bird (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth or early twentieth century
- Setting: Primarily the fairyland of children’s dreams, but at times France or Belgium
- Principal Characters: Tyltyl, Mytyl, Daddy Tyl, Mummy Tyl, Bérylune, Berlingot, Gaffer Tyl, Granny Tyl, Tylo, Tylette, Light, Bread, Sugar, Milk, Fire, Water
- Genres: Drama, Allegory, Symbolist literature
- Subjects: Values, Children, Family or family life, Memory, Folkloric or magical people, France or French people, Courage, Dreams, Emotions, Death or dying, Legends, Folklore, Fantasy, Allegory, Birds, Animals, Happiness, Fairy tales, Fables, Fairies
- Locales: France, Dreamscape, Belgium, Mythical lands
The Play
As The Blue Bird opens, Tyltyl and Mytyl are asleep on Christmas Eve. They appear to waken, but their activities are meant to represent their dreaming. The cottage door opens to admit an old and unattractive fairy, Bérylune, who resembles their neighbor, Berlingot. The fairy tells the children to find the blue bird for her little daughter, who is ill and cannot walk. She gives Tyltyl a green hat with a magic diamond on it. Turning the diamond will allow Tyltyl to see things as they really are and also to see the past and the future. When Tyltyl turns the...
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