description: Two plays by the author of "Speed-the-Plow". "The Shawl" is about a small-time mystic trying to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance. In "Prairie du Chien" a railway carriage on its way through Wisconsin is the setting for a story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide.
language: English
title: The Shawl/Prairie Du Chien
titlecomplete: The Shawl/Prairie Du Chien
genres: Plays, American, Drama
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd