Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
A fashionable apartment in London during the nineteenth century.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Context
Captain Hawtree is speaking directly to his close
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My dear Dal, all those marriages of people with common people are all very well in novels and in plays on the stage, because real people don’t exist, and have no relatives who exist, and no connections, and so no harm’s done, and it’s rather interesting to look at; but in real life with real relations, and real mothers, and so forth, it’s absolute bosh. It’s worse--it’s utter social and personal annihilation and damnation.
T.W. Robertson, “Caste” in Nineteenth-Century Plays, ed. George Rowell, 1987, p.349.
Performance Tips
- Deliver the opening lines with a relaxed,
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Challenging the Romance
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