# The Chinese lantern

Author: Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70852

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Chinese+lantern+Housman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_A Chinese Studio with windowed walls of woodwork and oil-paper. At back of centre a dais, and behind that a picture showing an interior opening into a garden. In the foreground of the picture appears a hanging lantern, and below it a mandoline and a jar holding a spray of plum-blossom. To the right of the stage a sliding door opens into street: to the left stairs lead upward to interior, forward of that a door also to interior. It is morning: six or seven students squat painting. Between every two of them is a small stand for paint-pots, brushes, etc. All are very lazy and desultory at their work: the only industrious one is_ TIKIPU, _who, in shabby menial attire, grinds colours with wea...

## Chapters

- [ACT I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chinese-lantern-70852/chapters/1/index.md)
- [ACT III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chinese-lantern-70852/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ACT II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chinese-lantern-70852/chapters/2/index.md)