Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
[_The Garden of the Palais-Royal, seen from the Cafe de Foy. It is Sunday the 12th of July, 1789. At the back is the "Cirque"; at the right, a fountain, playing. Between the "Cirque" and the promenades running round the Palais-Royal is a row of trees. The shopkeepers stand bef...
_The scene is a street in Paris, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. At the back, towering above the house-tops, stands the great bulk of the Bastille, the turrets of which, engulfed...
1. ACT I[_The Garden of the Palais-Royal, seen from the Cafe de Foy. It is Sunday the 12th of July, 1789. At the back is the "Cirque"; at the right, a fountain, playing. Between the "Ci...
7. ACT III_The Public Prosecutor_ FOUQUIER-TINVILLE; HERMAN, _the Judge, the Jury, gendarmes, and the People, are present. On the prisoners' bench are_ DANTON, DESMOULINS, HÉRAULT, PHILIP...
5. ACT I[_The home of_ CAMILLE DESMOULINS. _A middle-class sitting-room, furnished in every style, and presenting a fantastic appearance. The walls are hung with licentious engravings o...
6. ACT II[ROBESPIERRE'S _room in the Duplay house. There are two doors. The walls are white and hare. There is a chestnut bedstead with blue damask curtains with a white flower design. A...
3. ACT III[_Tuesday, July 14th. The Interior Court of the Bastille. To the left are seen the bases of two enormous towers the tops of which are invisible. Between them are thick masses of...
4. Act III. The Revolutionary Tribunal.[M. Rolland has suggested lines and "business" for The People in footnotes throughout Act III, but as these are not an integral part of the play and are intended rather as an ai...