The Well of the Saints
A blind beggar and his blind wife live by a country road on the flattery of neighbours who have assured them for years that they are the handsomest pair in the district. A wandering friar comes by with water from a holy well in the north and offers to cure them both. Synge took the frame from a fifteenth-century French farce he had read in Paris and reset it among the small farmers and tinkers of his own country.
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