Category: Humour

The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals

_JOHN GALE’S house down by the sea. Fireplace, R. Doors, R., L., and C. Table right of C., at which MRS. GALE is ironing. MARCH seated on a stool, L., arranging fishing-lines._

Chapters

1. ACT 1.

_JOHN GALE’S house down by the sea. Fireplace, R. Doors, R., L., and C. Table right of C., at which MRS. GALE is ironing. MARCH seated on a stool, L., arranging fishing-lines._

6. PART II.

_Festus._ It is astonishing how much a little borrowed plumage becomes a bashful man. The ice once broken by the inspiring thoughts and words of the love-sick “Raphael,” I feel...

5. SCENE 3. _CAPULET’S burying-ground. Tomb, C., on which is

written, “No one allowed to pick here without permit of the proprietor.” Graves, R. and L., with headstones facing audience. On R. is painted, “To be occupied by JULIET CAPULET;...

7. ACT 1. SCENE.--_Parlor in the house of DR. HARLEM. Table, L.,

_Lucy._ Indeed, Aunt Loring, I cannot help it. You know to-day is the very last of the term. School closed; all the pupils gone except Fred Hastings and Bob Winders, and they le...

8. ACT II.

_Mrs. L._ Dear me, how time does fly. It’s five years this very day since our Harry disappeared. Five long years, and no word, no sign, from him. Perhaps he’s dead. Poor boy, in...

2. SCENE 1. _Garden in front of CAPULET’S house. Door, C.

Balcony (the balcony is a shed with poles and lines filled with clothes drying), R. C. Set bushes or trees, L. C. Enter CAPULET, C., in dressing-gown, carrying a lantern._

4. scene 3 can be run into one._)

If I had a beau for a soldier would go, Do you think I’d marry him? No, no, no! And so must not Miss Juliet, that is flat, Bestow her hand, her money, and all that, On such a re...

3. SCENE 2. _A Wood.