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The Theatre of Ideas, a Burlesque Allegory, and Three One-act Plays
The Theatre of Ideas a Burlesque Allegory and Three Oneact Plays Author:Henry Arthur Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GRACE MARY, A Tragedy In The Cornish Dialect In One Act The dramatic form, the local setting and dialect, and the realistic prose treatment employed in thi... more »s little play, will remove it from any chance or pretence of comparison with the great imaginative ballad, "Michael Scott's Wooing," which Dante Gabriel Rossetti left unwritten. PERSONS REPRESENTED Nick Pentargan Isaac Roseveare Luke Jago Barzillai Teagub Peter Hoblyn Joshua Webber Grace Mary Roseveare Elizabeth Teague Miners, Peasants, Fisher-people Scene: The Cliff Edge of the North Cornish Coast Between "All Travellers' Inn" and Isaac Rose- Veare's Cottage. Time: A summer night early in the Nineteenth Century. GRACE MARY Scene: The exterior of "All Travellers' Inn" on the North Cornish coast. Summer night. Misty moonlight. The inn is on the right with a covered shelter outside, in which are placed rough tables, with forms on each side. On the tables are tankards and mugs. The inn window looks out on the shelter and is open. A bright light from the inn illumines the tables and the persons seated there. The door of the inn is down stage left, and also opens into the shelter. Over the shelter is a weather-beaten signboard with "All Travellers' Inn, by Barzillai Teague" painted on it. On the left of the stage is Isaac Roseveare's cottage, set diagonally; its windows look upon stage; the window of Grace Mary's room, on the top floor, is shut, and the curtains drawn apart. The window is lighted. The door of the cottage is approached by a short flight of stone steps at the corner of the house; the door being round the corner is not seen. At back of stage is the cliff line, and at a great distance below is the sea, the horizon line being scarcely discernible. Growing up from the cliff i...« less