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Spreading the News
''Spreading the News'' is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27 Dec. 1904. It was performed as part of a triple bill alongside William Butler Yeats's "On Baile's Strand" and a revival of the Yeats and Gregory collaborative one-act "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" (1902). Audiences may have dozed through Yeats's play,〔Elizabeth Coxhead, ''Lady Gregory: A Literary Portrait'' (NY: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961), p. 79
〕 but ''Spreading the News'' was very successful and it is still acted at the Abbey Theatre as late as 1961.〔Coxhead, p. 80〕 Lady Gregory remarked after seeing an early performance of the play that "the audience would laugh so much at 'Spreading the News' that they lost about half the dialogue. I mustn't be so amusing again!" 〔quoted in Kohfeldt, Mary Lou, ''Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance'' (NY: Athenuem, 1985), p. 176〕
== Plot summary==
In a small village in rural Ireland, a new (English) magistrate inspects stalls at the local fair, expecting the worst. Because of Mrs. Tarpey's hearing impairment and the villagers' love of gossip, a misunderstanding grows and grows, leading to a false arrest for a murder that never happened. The play ends abruptly, with little resolution; we are left wondering what happened. Most of the humour is situational, rather than playing with language. Because we know what really happened at the beginning, most of the play uses dramatic irony.
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