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Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 0
  • Male: 2
Style
Comedic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
1722, at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Six

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STEINDORFF: What is the meaning of this? A note, slipped under my door, summoning me to a clandestine--

SCHOTT: Yes, Herr Steindorff, I was hoping to have a word.

STEINDORFF: (Thoughtfully.) “Cantankerous.”

SCHOTT: I was hoping to have a word with you.

[... … …]

End:

SCHOTT: So be it. I will release the bird tonight.

STEINDORFF: I was wrong.

SCHOTT: What about?

STEINDORFF: Cantankerous is not strong enough. Not at all.

Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. pp.37-42.

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