One Act Plays
Prudence urges me here to forestall detection, by conceding that this brief play has no pretension to "literary" quality. It is a piece in its inception designed for, and in its making swayed by, the requirements of the little theatre stage. The one virtue which anybody anywhe...
GUIDO Madonna! but wise persons do not apply such adjectives to dukes. And wise persons do not criticize Count Eglamore's appearance, either, now that Eglamore is indispensable...
1. Chapter 1Prudence urges me here to forestall detection, by conceding that this brief play has no pretension to "literary" quality. It is a piece in its inception designed for, and in its...
3. Chapter 3GUIDO I had no choice. I love you. (_A pause. As GRACIOSA does not speak, GUIDO continues, very quiet at first._) It is a theme on which I shall not embroider. So long as I thou...