MASTER WILL OF STRATFORD
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MASTER WILL OF STRATFORD
A MIDWINTER NIGHT'S DREAM
IN
THREE ACTS
WITH A PROLOGUE AND AN
EPILOGUE
BYLOUISE AYRES GARNETT
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1916,
BY LOUISE AYRES GARNETT
Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1916. Reprinted March, 1916.
COPYRIGHT IN
GREAT BRITAIN
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian.
Acting and moving picture rights reserved
During 1916--the year of the Shakespeare Tercentary--public performances of the play may be given without the payment of any royalty, where no admission fee is charged. In all other cases, arrangements for securing the right to produce the play may be made by writing the author in care of the publishers.
The songs required for the production of this play, and the
instrumental music (except that for the morris-dance, concerning
which see Notes, post) are written by the
author and published by
CLAYTON F. SUMMY COMPANY,
64 East Van Buren St., Chicago.
The Compositions are as follows:
| A WASSAIL-SONG | (Act I) |
| FAIRY-GO-ROUND (A Carousal) | Puck's dance (Act I) |
| Witch's dance (Act I) | |
| Fairies' dance (Act III) | |
| A MAY-SONG | (Act II) |
| FOREST GAVOTTE | (Act III) |
| TITANIA'S LULLABY | (Act III) |
TO
EUGENE H. GARNETT
WHO HAS HELPED TO MAKE
MY
MIDWINTER NIGHT'S DREAM
AND OTHER
DREAMS
COME TRUE
MASTER WILL OF STRATFORD
page: 1[View Page 1]CHARACTERS
- WILL SHAKESPEARE, nearly twelve years of age
- MISTRESS JOHN SHAKESPEARE, his mother.
- BETSY, a neighbor, about twelve.
- THE WEE DICKUMS, Betsy's brother
- QUEEN ELIZABETH.
- SIR THOMAS LUCY, of Charlecote.
- A PEDLAR, afterward FILCH.
- OBERON, King of the Fairies.
- TITANIA, Queen of the Fairies.
- THE LITTLE INDIAN BOY
- THE CONSTABLE.
- ROBIN GOODFELLOW, leader of the Pucks.
-
COWSLIP Oberon's Pucks. FIREFLY WASP PEPPER-CORN -
CHALICE Titania's Fairies. CADENCE DULCET MELODY - THE WITCH OF WIMBLE.
- LADY-IN-WAITING to Queen Elizabeth.
- FOUR MINSTRELS
- FRIAR TUCK, ROBIN HOOD and other morris-dancers.
- Customers, bystanders and rustic singers.
(See Notes, post, for description of morris-dance.)
page: [2][View Page [2]]| Scene: Stratford-on-Avon and neighborhood, 1575 A. D. | ||
| Prologue | The Shakespeare Kitchen. | |
| Act I | ||
| Act II | The Forest of Arden | Day-time. |
| Act III | Night-time. | |
| Epilogue, | The Kitchen. | |
The Prologue opens New Year's Eve, and the Epilogue New Year's morning. Acts I, II, and II, present the dream during that interval.
