The Night-Comers

The Night-Comers

Death comes to the mother, who welcomes him, but the daughter resists three times

3-act play translated by William Sharp, with a note on the author by Sharp: Charles Van Lerberghe holds a peculiar place in the contemporary Belgian Renaissance. His actual literary achievement has, in bulk, been singularly meagre. A few poems, one or two compositions in prose: and here, for the present, the chronicle ends. On the other hand, there is probably no member of Young Belgium,' whether under the familiar flag of' La J eune Belgique,' or beneath that of the new protestant standard, Le Coq Rouge,' who would not at once name, or at least acknowledge, the author of ‘Les Flaireurs' as one of the two or three most distinctive leaders of the' movement.

Play by William Sharp, trans from Charles Van Lerberghe

Headpiece by Nellie Baxter, Marion A. Mason, and Annie Mackie

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Autumn 1895

Public Domain

Source: 1) Ryerson University Library Archives and Special Collections; 2) Private Collection (Dennis Denisoff)

Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities

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30 October 2017, ljk