Princes -- Drama

The sleeping beauty

The King. The Queen. The Princess. The Prince. Fairy of the Golden Isles. Fairy of the Crystal Mountains. Fairy of the Silver Rivers. Fairy of the Sable Caves. The Page. } The Courtier. } Same person. Attendant to Princess. Gentlemen In Waiting to Prince.

Chapters

1. ACT I.

2. Scene 2. In the Second Best Throne Room of the King and Queen.

The King. The Queen. The Princess. The Prince. Fairy of the Golden Isles. Fairy of the Crystal Mountains. Fairy of the Silver Rivers. Fairy of the Sable Caves. The Page. } The C...

3. ACT I.

_The curtain rises, showing the Second Best Throne Room of the King and Queen. It may either be hung with softly draped curtains, or have walls, representing gray rock, hung wit...

4. ACT II. SCENE 1. (_Same as Act I. Sixteen years later._)

(_The curtain rises upon the same room. The only change is that now a bench is in place of the cradle. The Princess, her Attendant, and the Courtier, who is the Page of the firs...

5. ACT II. SCENE 2.

(_The Attic near the tower room; a dim mysterious place; the fairy of the Sable Caves, disguised in a cap and apron, is spinning in one corner as the curtain rises._)

6. ACT II. SCENE 3. Same as Scene 1.

Let’s try to think of something else. Let’s talk Of something pleasant. Do you think, my dear, That dragon in the kingdom next to ours Will cross the border into this?

7. ACT III. SCENE 1.

(_Outside the thorn hedge that separates the palace of the Sleeping Beauty from the world. A horn is heard off stage. Presently the Prince enters with horn and spear. He stands...

8. ACT III. SCENE 2.

(_The tableau is the same, except that great cobwebs are about. The King, Queen, Princess, and attendants are all sleeping quietly. It is growing dusk. A thin thread of light co...

9. ACT I.

10. ACT II.

11. ACT III.

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