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Standard IX
Unit II
Breaking Barriers
Sub Unit
Princess On The Road
ONE ACT PLAY
by
KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE

About the author
KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE
(1885-1924)



She is a British Playwright who has authored five plays.
In her plays we find women as central characters.
The Play is about a princess in disguise who has arrived in a
village to have some adventure.




She is the newly wedded wife of prince Florimund who
rules that territory.





She does not like the formal life of the palace. she disguises
herself as a peasant girl and leaves the palace secretly
After travelling twelve miles on foot
she enters a village.She is dusty and
the edge of her skirt is torn.She is
wearing only shoe. She plucks flowers
and sings as she walks

The Princess feels thirsty and hungry.
But there was no one to help. A child
tells here that villagers have gone for
harvesting.



She goes into a cottage and brings milk and bread.



Soon the villagers arrive there and accuse her of
stealing their things. She tells them that she is the
Princess of that land and asks them to drive her back
to town. The village folk laugh at her and do not
believe her to be the princess. They call her brazen
face hussy thief and vagabond. They suggest
different punishment for her.


The princess becomes frightened and does not
know how to get rid of them.

Mean while a juggler arrives there. The villagers
greet him respectfully.



He recognizes the princess and warns the
villages to behave properly. They do not believe
him and demand some proof of her position.
The princess sings and dances to prove her
status but they are not convinced.
At last the juggler suggests to the princess to show
them the juggling of balls. She spins six apples in the
air without letting them fall.



The villagers are wonder-stuck at her marvellous
performance. They offer to drive her back home.

NEW WORD STUDY
Sentries
Soldiers whose job is to guard something
Pigtail
Length of plated hair, hangs down from back
of head


Coach
Large carriage with four wheels, pulled by
hourses
Banquet
Large formal dinner
Juggler
The man who keeps two or more objects especially
balls in the air by throwing and catching them
Harvest
Cut and gather a corp
Beckoning
to give somebody a signal using your hand
Crumbling
To break something into very small pieces
Cottage
Small House
Whip
A long thin piece of rope or leather connected to a
handle used for making animals move.
Illustrious
Very famous much admired
Scythe
A tool with a long handle a slightly curved blade used
for cutting grass or grain

Rake
A garden tool

Minuet
A slow elegant dance that was popular during 17
th
&
18
th
centuries
Akimbo
With your hands on your hip and your elbow pointing
away from your body
Vagabond
A person who has no home or job and who travells
palce to place