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Judith Of Bethulia A Tragedy
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

BETHULIA A TRAGEDY - THIS play - written for Miss Nance OINeil and produced at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, October I 3, 1904 - is in part a dramatization of the au- thors narrative poem Judith and Holofernes. Though it contains lines and passages from the story, the drama is essentially a distinct work, dealing with characters, incidents, an... more »d situa- tions not to be found in the poem or in the apocryphal episode upon which both pieces were based. November, 1904. May, 1905. NOTE TO SECOND EDITION THE changes made in the two scenes constituting Act 111 are in conso- nance with the authors original de- sign which the date set for the stage production of the play prevented him from elaborating. CHARACTERS HOLOFERNES, Chief-captain of the Assyrians ACHIOR, Be Ammonite, ZateZy fled jiom NoZofernes and in love with J.udith BAGOAS, Captive and stave to 1YoZoJerne.r OZIAS, CHABRIS, JOACHIM, Patriarchs of the beleaguered town Two Scholars NATHAN, ABNER, 1 Captains 01 fhe Watch HADAD, of Uotofernes Army JUDITH, A rich widow of Bethutid RIARAH, Wanhaid and companion to yudith NAOM I, A woman of the people Dancing-gids, musicians, Assyvian lords, and soldiers of both armies. ACT I JUDITH OF BETHULA ACT I SCENE I. A street in Bethulia. Time close upon daybreak. It is still very dark. Enter Ozias, Charmis, and Chabris with Abner and Hadad, captains of the guard, preceded by several night-watchmen carrying lighted lanterns slung on long staffs. The light- , bearers, on halting, form in a half circle behind the speakers. OZIAS HERE let us pause a moment and take breath. What is the hour To Abner ABNER T is close upon the dawn. CHARMIS At dawn it was we were to hear their prayer. OZIAS Their orders, rather. We no longer rule. 4 JUDITH OF BETHULIA ACT I CHABRIS Hunger and thirst and fever rule us now. The people threaten to break down the gates Unless within the limit of five days We somehow get them bread and meat and drink, Or come to terms with the Assyrians. CHARMIS That means surrender. CHABRIS And surrender means - OZIAS Slaughter, since Holofernes seldom spares Woman or child. Scant mercy will he show To us who for a month have blocked his march Through the hill-passes. Much longer CHARMIS Can the town be held OZIAS No. Starvation faces us, Draws each day nearer. We have still some grain, SCENE I JUDITH OF BETHULIA And just outside the Eastern Gate a spring The foe have not discovered. HAD AD Pardon, lord. This night they crept up to the outer wall And dammed the water-course. To let that happen OZIAS, angrily Where were our guards, HADAD Thrice their number came And fell upon them in the dead of night. The bodies of our comrades choke the stream. CHABRIS Each moment brings some new calamity CHARMIS Aye it is whispered that the pest is here. At set of sun two women and a child Were taken with strange sickness on the street. CHABRIS Perchance they diank of some infected well.

ISBN-13: 9781408607602
ISBN-10: 1408607603
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Northup Press
Book Type: Paperback
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