APPENDIX A

"KING LEAR'S WIFE" was performed for the first time on 25 September 1915 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with the following cast:

Lear	Mr. E. Ion Swinley.
Hygd	Miss Cathleen Orford.
Goneril	Miss Margaret Chatwin.
Cordeil	Miss Betty Pinchard.
Merryn	Miss Dorothy Taylor.
Gormflaith	Miss Mary Merrall.
Physician	Mr. Ivor Barnard.
	{Miss Betty Pinchard.
Two Elderly Women	{Miss Maud Gill.

Costumes and decoration designed by Mr. Barry V. Jackson.

Production by Mr. John Drinkwater.

In the course of the production the song of the Elder Woman, toward the close of the play, was fitted with so appropriate a melody, by a fortunate modification of a folk-tune, that it seems well to continue the connexion by printing the arrangement here.

[Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking [here].]

The louse made off unhappy and wet—
A-humm, A-humm, A-hee—
He's looking for us, the little pet;
So haste, for her chin's to tie up yet,
And let us be gone with what we can get—
Her ring for thee, her gown for Bet,
Her pocket turned out for me ... me....

This represents the extension of the melody used for the final stanza of the song: it can be adapted to the forms of the first and second stanzas by the omission of the sections A-C and B-C respectively. The Coda is intended for use with the final stanza only.

First performed in London on 19 May 1916 at His Majesty's Theatre, under the direction of Miss Viola Tree.

Lear	Mr. Murray Carrington.
Hygd	Lady Tree.
Goneril	Miss Viola Tree.
Cordeil	Miss Odette Goimbault.
Gormflaith	Miss Julia James.
Merryn	Miss Beatrice Wilson.
Physician	Mr. H. A. Saintsbury.
	{Miss Ada King
Two Elderly Women	{Miss Bertha Fordyce.

Play produced by Mr. John Drinkwater, and mounted by Mr. Purcell Jones: music by Mr. Ivor Novello.

SONGS
For the London performance of "King Lear's Wife."
I ([p. 43])

Mother, it is my wedding morn,
Come, bring the linen fine,
And wash my face with milk so warm
Drawn from the young white kine.
The blackbird in the apple-tree
Was waking ere the day;
But I was ready sooner than he,
For I watched the night away.

II ([p. 44])

The Queen has gone to bed
In the middle of the day;
But what about her bedfellow?
No one dares to say.
She cannot sleep at night:
She does not care to try;
The darkness makes her restless,
And nobody knows why.

III ([p. 48])

O, merry, merry will my heart be
When I can sit me down and rest:
If you would live to make old bones
Keep your knees off the kitchen-stones,
And go like a lady, warmly drest.