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The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson

by William Ernest Henley

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about 227
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Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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PAGE DEACON BRODIE 1 BEAU AUSTIN 111 ADMIRAL GUINEA 177 ROBERT MACAIRE 251

DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX

The Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday.

NOTE.—Passages suggested for omission in representation are enclosed in square brackets, thus [ ].

ACT I. TABLEAU I. The Double Life. TABLEAU II. Hunt the Runner. TABLEAU III. Mother Clarke’s. ACT II. TABLEAU IV. Evil and Good. ACT III. TABLEAU V. King’s Evidence. TABLEAU VI. Unmasked. ACT IV. TABLEAU VII. The Robbery. ACT V. TABLEAU VIII. The Open Door.

DEACON BRODIE, Mr. E. J. HENLEY. WALTER LESLIE, Mr. CHARLES CARTWRIGHT. WILLIAM LAWSON, Mr. JOHN MACLEAN. ANDREW AINSLIE, Mr. FRED DESMOND. HUMPHREY MOORE, Mr. EDMUND GRACE. GEORGE SMITH, Mr. JULIAN CROSS. HUNT, Mr. HUBERT AKHURST. OLD BRODIE, Mr. A. KNIGHT. CAPTAIN RIVERS, Mr. BRANDON THOMAS. MARY BRODIE, Miss LIZZIE WILLIAMS. JEAN WATT, Miss MINNIE BELL.

DEACON BRODIE, Mr. E. J. HENLEY. WALTER LESLIE, Mr. GRAHAM STEWART. WILLIAM LAWSON, Mr. EDMUND LYONS. ANDREW AINSLIE, Mr. FRED DESMOND. HUMPHREY MOORE, Mr. EDMUND GRACE. GEORGE SMITH, Mr. HORATIO SAKER. HUNT, Mr. HENRY VERNON. CAPTAIN RIVERS, Mr. BRUCE PHILIPS. MARY BRODIE, Miss ANNIE ROBE. JEAN WATT, Miss CARRIE COOTE.

The Stage represents a room in the Deacon’s house, furnished partly as a sitting-, partly as a bed-room, in the style of an easy burgess of about 1780. C., a door; L. C., a second and smaller door; R. C., practicable window; L., alcove, supposed to contain bed; at the back, a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles, etc. MARY BRODIE at needlework; OLD BRODIE, a paralytic, in wheeled chair, at the fireside, L.

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