Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship

JAMES BRANCH CABELL

IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION

CHAPTER - A PREFACE - CRITICAL COMMENT - THE ARGUMENT - PART ONE—PERION - I HOW PERION WAS UNMASKED - II HOW THE VICOMTE WAS VERY GAY - III HOW MELICENT WOOED - IV HOW THE BISHOP AIDED PERION - V HOW MELICENT WEDDED - PART TWO—MELICENT - VI HOW MELICENT SOUGHT OVERSEA - VII HOW PERION WAS FREED - VIII HOW DEMETRIOS WAS AMUSED - IX HOW TIME SPED IN HEATHENRY - X HOW DEMETRIOS WOOED - PART THREE—DEMETRIOS - XI HOW TIME SPED WITH PERION - XII HOW DEMETRIOS WAS TAKEN - XIII HOW THEY PRAISED MELICENT - XIV HOW PERION BRAVED THEODORET. - XV HOW PERION FOUGHT - XVI HOW DEMETRIOS MEDITATED. - XVII HOW A MINSTREL CAME - XVIII HOW THEY CRIED QUITS - XIX HOW FLAMBERGE WAS LOST - XX HOW PERION GOT AID - PART FOUR—AHASUERUS - XXI HOW DEMETRIOS HELD HIS CHATTEL - XXII HOW MISERY HELD NACUMERA. - XXIII HOW DEMETRIOS CRIED FAREWELL - XXIV HOW ORESTES RULED - XXV HOW WOMEN TALKED TOGETHER - XXVI HOW MEN ORDERED MATTERS - XXVII HOW AHASUERUS WAS CANDID - XXVIII HOW PERION SAW MELICENT - XXIX HOW A BARGAIN WAS CRIED - XXX HOW MELICENT CONQUERED - THE AFTERWORD - BIBLIOGRAPHY

JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER. - CRITICAL COMMENT

—THOMAS UPCLIFFE.

THE ARGUMENT

—SIR WILLIAM ALLONBY. - THE ROMANCE OF LUSIGNAN OF THAT FORGOTTEN MAKER IN THE FRENCH TONGUE, MESSIRE NICOLAS DE CAEN. HERE BEGINS THE TALE WHICH THEY OF POICTESME NARRATE CONCERNING DAME MELICENT, THAT WAS DAUGHTER TO THE GREAT COUNT MANUEL. - PART ONE

PART TWO - MELICENT

PART THREE - DEMETRIOS

PART FOUR - AHASUERUS