COLLECTED PLAYS

SRI AUROBINDO

Contents

PART ONE

PERSEUS THE DELIVERER

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
SCENE III		SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V

VASAVADUTTA

Act One		Act Two
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
		SCENE III

Act Three	Act Four	Act Five
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III
SCENE IV		SCENE IV
SCENE V		SCENE V
		SCENE VI

RODOGUNE

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III	SCENE III	SCENE III
	SCENE IV
	SCENE V

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II		SCENE II
SCENE III		SCENE III
SCENE IV		SCENE IV
SCENE V

ERIC

Act One	Act Two	Act Three
SCENE I	SCENE I	SCENE I
SCENE II	SCENE II	SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV

Act Four		Act Five
SCENE I		SCENE I
SCENE II

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

SCENE II

ASLAUG

The world has changed for me within one night.
O surely, surely all shall yet go well,
Since Love is crowned.

ERIC (entering)

Aslaug, the hour arrives
When I must leave thee. For the dawn looks pale
Into our chamber and these first rare sounds
Expect the arising sun, the daylight world.

ASLAUG

Eric, thou goest hence to war with Swegn,
My brother ?

ERIC

What thinks thy heart?

ASLAUG

That Swegn shall live.

ERIC

Thou know'st his safety from deliberate swords.
None shall dare touch the head that Aslaug loves.
Yet if some evil chance came edged with doom
Which Odin and my will shall not allow
Or in the fight his splendid rashness slew,
Thou wouldst not hold me guilty of his death,
Aslaug ?

ASLAUG

Fate orders all and Fate I now
Have recognised all the world's mystic will
That loves and labours.

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ERIC

Because it labours and loves
Our hearts, our wills are counted, are indulged.
Aslaug, for these few days in hope and trust
Anchor thy mind. I shall bring back thy joy,
Because I go with mercy and from love. .

He embraces her and goes.

ASLAUG

Swegn lives. A heart, not iron gods, o'errules.¹

Curtain

¹Swegn lives. A Mind, not iron gods, with laws
Deaf and inevitable, overrules.

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