Plays and Lyrics

SCENE: _The Chapel of the Castle--or Chapel of the Magdalen--a few hours later. It is of stone, low-arched, gloomy, and adorned with Byzantine mosaics of gaunt saints on backgro...

SCENE: _A Hall of Judgment in the palace of_ SAUL _at Gibeah. The walls and pillars of cedar are richly carven--with serpents, pomegranates, and cherubim in gold. The floors are...

SCENE: _A dim Hall, of blended Gothic and Saracenic styles, in the Lusignan Castle, on the island of Cyprus near Famagouste. Around the walls, above faint frescoes portraying th...

SCENE: _The forecourt of the castle, beyond which is the garden and in the distance the mountains, under the deep tropical blue of morning. On the right the wall enclosing the c...

SCENE: _The Hall and loggia of Act I.; but toward sunset, and afar, on the flushed sea, are seen the fisher-boats returning pale-winged to shore. In the left distance, also, a p...

SCENE: _A savage mountain-cliff in the wilderness of Engeddi. On either side grey crags rise rugged, sinking away precipitously across the back. Cut into each is a cave. The hei...

SCENE.--_The royal tent of_ SAUL _pitched on one hill of the battlefield of Ephes-Dammin. The tent is of black embroidered with various warlike designs. To one side on a daïs ar...

SCENE: _The house of_ MIRIAM, _the "Witch of Endor," by Mount Gilboa--where_ SAUL _is encamped against the Philistines. It is of one story, built rectangularly about an inner co...