Editing Lord Dunsany (section)

==Dramatisations and media==
===Theatre===
*Most of Dunsany's plays were performed in his lifetime, some many times in many venues, including the [[West End Theatre|West End]], Broadway and [[Off-Broadway]]. At one time, five ran simultaneously in New York, possibly all on Broadway,<ref>New York, NY: ''New York Times'', 24 December 1916: Second Thoughts on First Nights: "Speaking of Dunsany ... he has quite come into his own this season... suddenly seen four produced on Broadway within a single month, and a fifth promised for production before the end of Winter. Everyone is talking about Dunsany now." From a second ''New York Times'' reference, three were ''The Golden Doom'', ''The Gods of the Mountain'' and ''King Argimines''.</ref>{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} On another occasion he was being performed in four European capitals as well as New York.

===Radio===
*Dunsany wrote several plays for radio, most being broadcast on the BBC and some collected in ''Plays for Earth and Air''. The [[BBC]] had recordings of the broadcasts, but according to articles on the author, these are not extant.
*Dunsany is known to have read short stories and poetry on air and for private recording by Hazel Littlefield-Smith and friends in California. It is thought that one or two of these recordings survive.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
*The successful film ''It Happened Tomorrow'' was later adapted for radio.
*The radio drama ''Fortress of Doom'' (2005) in the ''[[Radio Tales]]'' series is an adaptation of Dunsany's short story "[[The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth]]".

===Television===
*Dunsany appeared on early television several times, notably on ''[[The Brains Trust]]'' (reaching over a quarter of the UK population), but no recordings are known to exist.
*A 1946 BBC production of ''A Night at an Inn'' starred Oliver Burt.
*A half-hour dramatisation of ''A Night at an Inn'', starring Boris Karloff, adapted from Dunsany's play by Halsted Welles and directed by [[Robert Stevens (director)|Robert Stevens]], was produced for ''[[Suspense (U.S. TV series)|Suspense]]'' and aired in April 1949.
*In 1952, ''[[Four Star Playhouse]]'' presented ''The Lost Silk Hat'', directed by [[Robert Florey]] and starring [[Ronald Colman]], who also collaborated with [[Milton Merli]] on the script.
*An adaptation of ''The Pirates of the Round Pond'' was aired as ''The Pirates of Central Park'' in 2001.
*A dramatised reading of ''Charon'' appeared in the USA TV series ''Fantasmagori'', 2017.

===Cinema===
*The critically and commercially successful 1944 film ''[[It Happened Tomorrow]]'', nominated for two Oscars, credited "The Jest of Hahalaba" as one of its sources.
*The short ''In the Twilight'', a 15-minute colour production from a short story of that name, directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], was showcased in the mid-1970s at the [[London Film Festival]].
*The short ''Nature and Time'', a 1976 colour production from a short story of that name, directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], starred [[Helen York]] and [[Paul Goodchild]].<ref>British Film Institute: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/105799 {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926224022/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/105799 |date=26 September 2012}}</ref>
*The 22-minute colour film ''The Pledge'', from the short story "The Highwayman", directed by [[Digby Rumsey]], was released by Fantasy Films in 1981 and distributed by [[Twentieth Century Fox]], with music by [[Michael Nyman]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-the-pledge-1981-online |title=Watch The Pledge |website=BFI Player |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref>
*The 2008 film ''[[Dean Spanley]]'', adapted by [[Alan Sharp]] from the novella ''[[My Talks With Dean Spanley]]'', directed by [[Toa Fraser]] and produced by [[Matthew Metcalfe]] and Alan Harris, starred [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Sam Neill]], [[Jeremy Northam]] and [[Bryan Brown]].
*[[George Pal]] [[optioning|optioned]] the science fiction novel ''The Last Revolution'' in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP2.htm |title=The George Pal Site: "-Ographies" |website=awn.com |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> The short story "Charon" and the novel ''The King of Elfland's Daughter'' were among others optioned at various times, but none are believed to have reached production. Granada TV also bought options or rights for certain stories.
*According to David Scott Diffrient, the 1998 British-US romantic [[comedy drama]] film ''[[Sliding Doors]]'', with some similar plot points, directed by [[Peter Howitt]], also had a Dunsanian link with that material and with ''If''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scott Diffrient |first=David |date=2014-12-30 |title=Alternate futures, contradictory pasts: Forking paths and cubist narratives in contemporary film |url=http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-20-first-release/alternate-futures-contradictory-pasts-forking-paths-and-cubist-narratives-in-contemporary-film/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Screening the Past |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Text readings===
*Dunsany performed a number of live readings, notably of poetry and extracts from plays, in New York and California.<ref name="Wray_pprs">{{Cite web |title=The Willow Wray Collection of the Writings of Lord Dunsany |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8s75gxv/entire_text/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref>
*An extract from [[Time and the Gods]] was used to accompany a video published for a relaunch of the [[Museum of Literature Ireland]] (MoLI) in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web| title=In a Garden Meet Again | website=YouTube. | author=Museum of Literature Ireland | url= https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfACfPUA-Y&si=f5OpmAQdTSrlMpGA |date=11 May 2021 |access-date=16 May 2021}}</ref>

===Music===
*[[Eduardo Bort]] was inspired by "[[Idle Days on the Yann]]" for his debut album ''Eduardo Bort'' (1975), especially for the lyrics of the tracks "Yann", "En las riberas del Yann" and the bonus track "En las fuentes del Yann".<ref name=bort>[https://www.discogs.com/es/Eduardo-Bort-Eduardo-Bort/release/6020437/ Music album inspired by Eduardo Bort - Eduardo Bort (1975)]</ref>
*In 1977, Peter Knight and Bob Johnson, two members of [[Steeleye Span]], recorded a concept [[The King of Elfland's Daughter (album)|album]] based on Dunsany's ''[[The King of Elfland's Daughter]]'', released by Chrysalis Records on LP and later on CD. The album starred [[Christopher Lee]].<ref>{{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|2014}}, 2nd rev. ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=IOFeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 p. 182]; {{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|1993}}, 1st ed., p. 182. Item # C.ii.5</ref>
*An adaptation of "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" was made by Destiny's End in 1998.<ref>{{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|2014}}, 2nd rev. ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=IOFeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 p. 182]; {{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|1993}}, 1st ed., p. 182. Item # C.ii.6</ref>
*An interpretation of ''[[The King of Elfland's Daughter]]'' was released by the metal band Falcon in 2008<ref>{{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|2014}}, 2nd rev. ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=IOFeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 p. 182]; {{harvp|Joshi|Schweitzer|1993}}, 1st ed., p. 182. Item # C.ii.7</ref>

===Audiobooks===
*An LP of [[Vincent Price]] reading a number of Dunsany short stories appeared in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/Vincent-Price-Lord-Dunsany-Stories-From-The-Book-Of-Wonder-Jorkens-Remembers-Africa-And-The-Fourth-B/release/8174058 |title=Vincent Price (2) – Lord Dunsany Stories From The Book Of Wonder Jorkens Remembers Africa and the Fourth Book Of Jorkens (Caedmon Records) |date=1982 |publisher=discogs}}</ref>
*Several Dunsany short stories have been published as audiobooks in Germany and played on the German national railway, [[Deutsche Bahn]] (DB).
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*''[[The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories]]'' were published in the UK and US in 2017.
*A set of short stories set to music, ''The Vengeance of Thor'', was released by Pegana Press, Olympia, Washington, in 2017.

===Video game===
*Dunsany appears as a playable character in the 1999 [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] game ''[[Koudelka]]''.