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 PERSONÆ
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.
PEPÉ,[1] Malatesta's jester Mr. Louis James.
CARDINAL, Friend to Guido Mr. Charles Rolfe.
RENÉ,[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 PEPÉ and RENÉ are used only in the Dramatis Personæ, and not in the body of the book.]