The Rim Of The World TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text THE PRINCESS. Who are you?<br><br>THE GYPSY. Say that I am the wind, coming in at your window as I have come so many times before when you lay awake in your chamber, bringing you strange thoughts.<br><br>THE PRINCESS. If you are the wind bringing me strange thoughts, you come to me for the last time.<br><br>THE GYPSY. Or say that I am a dream that has come to you often in your chamber when you lay asleep.<br><br>THE PRINCESS. I am forbidden to dream, now.<br><br>THE GYPSY. Or say that I am a Gypsy, come to tell a Queen that he loves her.<br><br>THE PRINCESS. Those words are like an echo. I seem to have heard them many times. Come nearer.<br><br>He enters, and kneels to her.<br><br>THE GYPSY. This is my last folly. I come to you, O princess, and offer all I have--my love, and a bed on the heath under the stars.<br><br>THE PRINCESS. That is not enough, my friend. There are other things.<br><br>THE GYPSY. What other things?<br><br>THE PRINCESS. Dimly, as from another life, I seem to remember the jolting of the wagons that rocked me to sleep, and the good smell of the soup in the big kettle over the fire.<br><br>THE GYPSY. (rising) This is beyond reason!<br><br>THE PRINCESS. All beautiful things are beyond reason, my friend.<br><br>THE GYPSY. You are a Gypsy? COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheRimOfTheWorld.pdf
