APPENDICES


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:

LearMr. E. Ion Swinley.
HygdMiss Cathleen Orford.
GonerilMiss Margaret Chatwin.
CordeilMiss Betty Pinchard.
MerrynMiss Dorothy Taylor.
GormflaithMiss Mary Merrall.
PhysicianMr. 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.