Under Milk Wood (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dylan Thomas
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: Llaregyb, also called Llareggub, a mythical seaside village in Wales
- Principal Characters: Captain Cat, The Reverend Eli Jenkins, Polly Garter, Mog Edwards, Myfanwy Price, Mr. Pugh, Mrs. Pugh, Mr. Waldo, Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, Butcher Beynon, Mrs. Beynon, Gossamer Beynon, Organ Morgan, Cherry Owen, Mrs. Owen, Willy Nilly, Mrs. Willy Nilly, Sinbad Sailors, Mary Ann Sailors, Lord Cut-Glass, Nogood Boyo, Ocky Milkman
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Radio play
- Subjects: Villages, Dreams, Drinking or drunkenness, Sea or seafaring life, Wales or Welsh people
- Locales: Llareggub, Wales
The Story:
Night’s deep shadows lay over sleeping Llaregyb, a small, decayed seaside resort village. So a guidebook might describe the town, a place of no particular interest to the sportsman, the health-seeker, or the tourist. Under the black, moonless sky, the cobblestone streets were silent and Milk Wood was empty of lovers, the darkness disturbed only by the secret, rustling animal life. In their darkened houses the people of Llaregyb slept, their dreams filled with love or hate, desire or dismay.
Captain Cat was a retired, blind sea captain. Through his dreams...
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