Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 3
Time & Place
A humble English cottage near the coast during the early nineteenth-century wartime era.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Context
Susan is alone in her cottage, speaking aloud to
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Twelve long tedious months have passed, and no tidings of William. Shame upon the unkind hearts that parted us--that sent my dear husband to dare the perils of the ocean, and made me a pining, miserable creature. Oh! the pangs, the dreadful pangs that tear the sailor's wife, as wakeful on her tear-wet pillow, she lists and trembles at the roaring sea.
Douglas Jerrold, "Black-Ey'd Susan" in Nineteenth-Century Plays, ed. George Rowell, Oxford University Press, 1987, p.8.
Performance Tips
- Use the active resentment in the first half of
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Directing the Blame
- What shifts:
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