Volume 15 — DEACON BRODIE
Reading edition
OR THE DOUBLE LIFE
A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUX
PERSONS REPRESENTED
William Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreaker and Master Carpenter
Old Brodie, the Deacon’s Father
William Lawson, Procurator-Fiscal, the Deacon’s Uncle
Andrew Ainslie, Humphrey Moore, George Smith, } Robbers in the Deacon’s Gang
Captain Rivers, an English Highwayman
Hunt, a Bow Street Runner
A Doctor
Walter Leslie
Mary Brodie, the Deacon’s Sister
Jean Watt, the Deacon’s Mistress
Vagabonds, Officers of the Watch, Men-servants
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 parentheses, thus ( )
SYNOPSIS OF ACTS AND TABLEAUX
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