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TREASURER
Mr. P. WARREN
ASSISTANT TREASURER
Mr. NAGLE
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FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS[A]
By GEORGE H. BOKER
[Footnote A: The text that follows was compared with Lawrence Barrett’s copy of the second edition, now in the library of The Players, New York. The title page reads: Plays and Poems: | by | George H. Boker | In two volumes | Vol. I | Second Edition | Boston: | Ticknor and Fields. | MDCCCLVII. | | Boker’s copyright, 1856.]
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
McVicker’s Theatre, Chicago, November 6, 1882
MALATESTA, Lord of Rimini Mr.
B.G. Rogers.
GUIDO DA POLENTA, Lord of Ravenna Mr.
F.C. Mosley.
LANCIOTTO, Malatesta’s son
Mr. Lawrence Barrett.
PAOLO, His brother Mr.
Otis Skinner.
PEPE,[1] Malatesta’s jester
Mr. Louis James.
CARDINAL, Friend to Guido Mr.
Charles Rolfe.
RENE,[1] A troubadour Mr.
Percy Winter.
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, Guido’s daughter
Miss Marie Wainwright.
RITTA, Her maid Miss
Rosie Batchelder.
Lords, Ladies, Knights, Priests, Soldiers, Pages, Attendants, etc.
Grand Opera House, Chicago, August 26, 1901.
MALATESTA, Lord of Rimini Mr.
W.J. Constantine.
GUIDO DA POLENTA, Lord of Ravenna Mr.
E.A. Eberle.
LANCIOTTO, Malatesta’s son
Mr. Otis Skinner.
PAOLO, His brother Mr.
Aubrey Boucicault.
PEPE, Malatesta’s jester
Mr. William Norris.
CARDINAL, Friend to Guido Mr.
Frederick von Rensselar.
RENE, A troubadour Mr.
Fletcher Norton.
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, Guido’s daughter
Miss Marcia Van Dresser.
RITTA, Her maid Miss
Gertrude Norman.
Lords, Ladies, Knights, Priests, Soldiers, Pages, Attendants, etc. SCENE. Rimini, Ravenna, and the neighbourhood. TIME. About 1300 A.D.
[Footnote 1: In the original edition, the accents in the names of PEPE and RENE are used only in the Dramatis Personae, and not in the body of the book.]
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
ACT I.
SCENE I. Rimini. The Garden of the Palace. PAOLO and a number of noblemen are discovered, seated under an arbour, surrounded by RENE, and other troubadours, attendants, &c.
