Front matter
Reading edition
BY
CLEMENCE DANE
‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.’
Shakespeare.
THE PEOPLE OF THE PLAY
As they appear.
Anne Hathaway.
Will Shakespeare.
Mrs. Hathaway.
Henslowe.
A Child.
Players.
Queen Elizabeth.
Mary Fitton.
Kit Marlowe.
Stage Hands.
A Boy.
A Landlord.
A Man.
Another Man.
A Girl.
A Street Hawker.
A Page.
Soldiers, Attendants, etc.
ACT I. —A Cottage in Stratford.
ACT II. —Ten Years Later— Scene 1. A Room in the Palace. Scene 2. Three Months Later— the First Night of “Romeo and Juliet.”
ACT III. — Scene 1. A Month Later—Shakespeare’s Lodging. Scene 2. The Same Night—A Room at an Inn.
ACT IV. —The Next Day—A State Room in the Palace.
The Play was first acted at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on November 17th, 1921, by the Reandean Company, with the following cast:—
WILL SHAKESPEARE Mr. Philip Merivale
ANNE Miss Moyna Macgill
Mrs. HATHAWAY Miss Mary Rorke
HENSLOWE Mr. Arthur Whitby
QUEEN ELIZABETH Miss Haidee Wright
MARY FITTON Miss Mary Clare
KIT MARLOWE Mr. Claude Rains
A CHILD ACTOR Master Eric Spear
A SECRETARY Mr. Arthur Bawtree
A STAGE HAND Mr. Gilbert Ritchie
A BOY Master Spear
A LANDLORD Mr. Ivor Barnard
A LADY-IN-WAITING Miss Joan Maclean
Shadows in Act I.
Ophelia Miss Lennie Pride Shylock Mr. Gilbert Ritchie
Desdemona Miss Gladys Jessel Clown Mr. Ivor Barnard
Othello Mr. Herbert Young Hamlet Mr. Neil Curtis
Queen Margaret Miss Flora Robson Caesar Mr. Arthur Bawtree
Prince Arthur Mr. Eric Crosbie Cleopatra Miss Mai Ashley
Rosalind Miss Phyllis Fabian King Lear Mr. Fred Morgan
The Three Fates { Miss Nora Robinson
{ Miss Gladys Gray
{ Miss Beatrice Smith
Strolling Players, Beefeaters, Stage Hands, Drinkers, Court Attendants, etc.
The Production by BASIL DEAN. The Music by THOMAS WOOD. Designs for the Scenery and Dresses by GEORGE HARRIS.