The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts

A Drama In Four Acts
James Edgar Smith.
Founded upon Nathaniel Hawthorne's Novel, The Scarlet Letter.
WASHINGTON, D.C. JAMES J. CHAPMAN, 1899.
Copyright, 1899, by JAMES EDGAR SMITH.
All rights reserved.
Press of George S. Krouse. Bindery of Edwin F. Price.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
It ought not to be necessary to point out that the entire third scene in the second act of this play is a dramatic transcript from the diseased consciousness of Mr. Dimsdell, that the Satan of the play is an hallucination, and that the impress of the stigma upon Dimsdell's breast is merely the culmination of his auto-hypnotic ecstasy, or trance.
ROGER PRYNNE, called Chillingworth , a physician. ARTHUR DIMSDELL, a youthful divine. JOHN WILSON, a good old minister. BELLINGHAM, Governor of the Colony. BUTTS, a sea captain. SATAN, an hallucination of Dimsdell's.
HESTER PRYNNE, wife of Roger Prynne. MARTHA WILSON, daughter of Rev. John Wilson. URSULA, a nurse. BETSEY, a milkmaid. MOTHER CAREY, keeper of a sailor's inn.
A Clerk, a Crier, a Jailer, Councilors, Citizens, Soldiers, Sailors, Indians, Servants.