As the Crow Flies (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Austin Clarke
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Plot: Verse drama
- Time of Work: The seventh century
- Setting: Near the River Shannon in western Ireland
- Principal Characters: Father Virgilius, Brother Manus, Brother Aengus, The Eagle of Knock, The Crow of Achill, The Stag of Leiterlone, The Blackbird of Derrycairn, The Salmon of Assaroe
- Genres: Drama, Verse drama
- Subjects: Values, Nature, Religion, Christianity, Storms, Legends, Ireland or Irish people, Animals, Dark ages
- Locales: Ireland
The Play
As the Crow Flies, a radio play, opens on a late summer evening, as two monks, Virgilius and Manus, sit in a boat moored in a creek near the Shannon River. The abbot of Clonmacnoise—the major monastery on the Shannon at the time—has sent them to cut rushes for thatch. Manus, a stolid, dependable, and unimaginative man, is uneasy that the youngest member of their group, Brother Aengus, has not yet returned from a foray into the forest; Virgilius, wiser and more patient, says that Aengus must satisfy his youthful urge to know “the meaning of Creation,” and...
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