Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_SCENE--Fairy Land. A beautiful, but fanciful landscape, which is supposed to lie on the upper side of a cloud. The cloud is suspended over the earth, a portion of which (representing “a bird’s-eye view” of a mediæval city), is seen, far below, through a rent or gap in the clo...
_SCENE--Fairy Land. A beautiful, but fanciful landscape, which is supposed to lie on the upper side of a cloud. The cloud is suspended over the earth, a portion of which (repres...
2. ACT II._Dar._ Still, still Selene watches Ethais! For six long hours has she detained the knight Within the dark recesses of her bower, Under pretense that his unhappy wound Demands he...
3. ACT III._Zay._ Then let us float on yonder silver stream (_they rise_), Or plunge headlong into its mossy depths, And wander, hand in hand, from grot to grot; Or, if thou wilt, I’ll whi...
4. ACT I.[_Several classical statues are placed about the room; at the back a temple or cabinet containing a statue of GALATEA, before which curtains are drawn concealing the statue from...
5. ACT II._Pyg._ To-morrow my Cynisca comes to me; Would that she had never departed hence! It took a miracle to make me false, And even then I was but false in thought; A less exacting w...
6. ACT III._Myr._ Oh, we were all so happy yesterday, And now, within twelve miserable hours, A blight has fallen upon all of us. Pygmalion is blind as death itself, Cynisca leaves his hom...
7. ACT IV.8. ACT I._Fred._ (_dictating to EVE, who writes in a memorandum book at his feet_). Let me see. Three hundred oranges, six hundred buns, thirty gallons of tea, twelve large plum cakes. S...
9. did. Well, she stretched it out, and I thought she meant it (for I was_Ruth._ (_much moved_). Thankee, missis! you’ve spoke fair to me. I’ve had no one speak like that to me for many a long year. Thankee, missis. (_Struggling with tears._) Don’t m...
10. ACT II._Fitz._ Hunting down a thief? Oh, yes. To enable me to assist you in blighting the character of the best and loveliest woman that ever shed a light upon a private detective’s th...
11. ACT III._Fred._ “Your eternally attached Frederick.” If there was any flaw in Mrs. Van Brugh’s marriage, as my father seems to suspect--and his suspicions are corroborated by her astoni...
12. ACT IV._Mrs. V. B._ “The Rev. Mr. Twemlow presents his compliments to Mrs. Van Brugh, and begs to return her annual subscription of fifty guineas to the Fund for providing Shelter for...
13. ACT III.14. ACT I._Zoram._ And then The music you have wedded to the words (I speak of this with some authority) Shames, in its flow of rhythmic melody, The counterpoint of Adam de la Halle!
15. ACT II._Zeo._ Indeed she does! Why, father, I have lived near eighteen years, And never knew until three hours ago That you possessed so lovely a domain! Why have I wasted eighteen yea...
16. ACT III._Chrys._ (_very valiantly_). My demeanor? Bounce! Mere idle empty froth and nothing more. Why, notwithstanding that I look so brave, I’d give the riches of a universe To find so...