Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Wallenstein's Camp: A Play

Sutlers' tents--in front, a Slop-shop. Soldiers of all colors and uniforms thronging about. Tables all filled. Croats and Hulans cooking at a fire. Sutler-woman serving out wine. Soldier-boys throwing dice on a drum-head. Singing heard from the tent.

Chapters

11. Chapter 11

FIRST CUIRASSIER. And can you, who've the rank of a Friedland man, So shamefully cast yourself away, As to try your luck with the boor at play? Let him run off, so that run he can.

6. Chapter 6

TRUMPETER. Yet your pointed collar is clean and sightly, And, then, your hose that sit so tightly! Your linen so fine, with the hat and feather, Make a show of smartness altoget...

8. Chapter 8

Enter Miners, and play a waltz--at first slowly, and afterwards quicker. The first Yager dances with the girl, the Sutler-woman with the recruit. The girl springs away, and the...

7. Chapter 7

RECRUIT (sings). The drum and the fife, War's rattling throng, And a wandering life The world along! Swift steed--and a hand To curb and command-- With a blade by the side, We'r...

5. Chapter 5

SUTLER-WOMAN. The same in sooth--and you I know, Are the lanky Peter of Itzeho: Who at Glueckstadt once, in revelling night, With the wags of our regiment, put to flight All his...

1. Chapter 1

Sutlers' tents--in front, a Slop-shop. Soldiers of all colors and uniforms thronging about. Tables all filled. Croats and Hulans cooking at a fire. Sutler-woman serving out wine...

2. Chapter 2

SERGEANT. Tush! that's mere show-- 'Tis the troops collected from other lands Who here at Pilsen have joined our bands-- We must do the best we can t' allure 'em, With plentiful...

9. Chapter 9

SERGEANT. Listen--'Tis not so untrue as it appears; For Friedland was rather mysteriously born, And is 'specially troubled with ticklish ears; He can never suffer the mew of a c...

3. Chapter 3

10. Chapter 10

FIRST YAGER (to the Trumpeter). Let 'em go! they're of Tiefenbach's corps, the railers, A glorious train of glovers and tailors! At Brieg, in garrison, long they lay; What shoul...

4. Chapter 4